THE SCOTTISH TERRIER. 
assistance of our old friend the black and 
tan wire-haired terrier of England was 
sought by a few astute people living prob- 
ably not very far from Aberdeen. The 
writer feels the vials of the wrath of the 
Scotsman, the hiss of his breath, the 
hatred of his eye, and if it were not that 
they never do such a thing, he would add 
the curse of his lip; but, for all of it, he is 
confident that he is right and 
whole-heartedly congratulates the 
gentlemen north of the Tweed on 
the animal they have produced. 
The Skye, the Dandie, the White 
Scottish have no place in this 
chapter. Were it otherwise, no- 
thing would be easier than to 
unfold the method by which they 
have been begotten. There can, 
with regard at any rate to the 
two first mentioned, in all likeli- 
hood be no mistaking the breed 
or breeds which have been em- 
ployed for this purpose. 
Scottish Terriers frequently go 
by the name of Aberdeen Ter- 
tiers—an appellation, it is true, 
usually heard only from the lips 
of people who do not know much 
about them. Mr. W. L. McCand- 
lish, one of the greatest living 
authorities on the breed, in an able 
treatise published some time back, tells 
us, in reference to this matter, that the 
terrier under notice went at different 
periods under the names of Highland, 
Cairn, Aberdeen, and Scotch; that he is 
now known by the proud title of Scot- 
tish Terrier; and that “the only sur- 
viving trace of the differmg nomen- 
clature is the title Aberdeen, which many 
people still regard as a different breed—a 
want of knowledge frequently turned to 
account by the unscrupulous dealer who 
is able to sell under the name of Aberdeen 
a dog too bad to dispose of as a Scottish 
Terrier.” Mr. Harding Cox tells us that 
the name of Aberdeen as applied to Scot- 
tish Terriers dies hard, that it is still the 
name used amongst the non-technical cyno- 
philists, and is stoutly supported by the 
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soi-disant wiseacre. All this is unques- 
tionably true, as far as it goes; but there 
can be no doubt that originally there must 
have been some reason for the name. In 
a letter to the writer, Sir Paynton Pigott 
says, ‘‘Some people call them and adver- 
tise them as the Aberdeen Terrier, which 
is altogether a mistake; but the reason 
of it is that forty years ago a Dr. Van 
mR. J. LEE’S MAULDEN RANNOCH 
BY CH. HEWORTH RASCAL——BALMACRON DAISY. 
Bust, who lived in Aberdeen, bred these 
terriers to a large extent and sold them, and 
those buying them called them, in conse- 
quence, ‘Aberdeen Terriers,’ whereas they 
were in reality merely a picked sort of Old 
Scotch or Highland Terrier.” Sir Paynton 
himself, as appears from the columns of 
The Live Stock Journal (March and, 1877), 
bought some of the strain of Van Bust, and 
therein gives a full description of the same. 
«« Strathbogie,’’ however, would have none 
of the Aberdeen Terriers, and would not 
even admit there was such a dog. He en- 
deavoured, previously in the same year, to 
put ‘‘ The Badger ” and Dr. Gordon Stables 
right on the point by telling them they were 
just about as correct as was a certain Lord 
Provost on an occasion when he was invited 
by a captain of a ship, who had returned 
from Jamaica, to dine with him on his ship 
