272 The Dog Book 
a Welsh dog than are hounds bred in Wales entitled to be called Welsh. 
We have some fifty illustrations of terriers made before 1825, and dating 
back to the preceding century, and the rough black and tan is more promi- 
nent than any variety. Those who drew, engraved or etched these dogs 
lived as far from Wales, by the standard of difficulty of communication 
and travel, as a New Yorker is from Nome, and we can safely say knew 
nothing of dogs in Wales. We also have seen as many drawings of coloured 
spaniels of that period, and the Welsh red and white is just as prevalent 
as are the terriers referred to. All this in addition to the description of 
the springers about London a century ago, as given in Thorburn’s “Shoot- 
ing Directory,” quoted from in the chapter on the cocker spaniel. 
