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individual, certainly within ten years, and generally in half that 

 time, always supposing that its elementary points are already 

 in existence. 



No dog is more available as a young man's companion than 

 the subject of the present article, but he is not so well suited to 

 the ladies' room, as his coat is apt to come off and disfigure her 

 dress and carpet. With the single exception of the coat, the 

 points of the rough fox-terrier resemble those of the smooth, and 

 I need hot therefore repeat them here. It is only necessary to 

 substitute the above description of his coat for that given in the 

 points of the smooth dog at page 87. The numerical value is 

 the same. 



XII.— THE SCOTCH TERMER. 



In the present day no such breed as the above is recognised 

 at our shows, where the only representatives of it are shown, 

 first, when used for sporting purposes as rough fox-terriers, and, 

 secondly, as toys which no doubt have been carefully bred from 

 the original by selecting those possessed of the most lady-like 

 coats and of the most beautiful blue and fawn colours. In 

 Ireland a terrier exactly resembling him is preserved and prized 

 as he deserves, and may be considered to have, phoenix-like, 

 risen from the ashes of the Scotch terrier. " Peto," the dog I 

 selected twenty years ago to represent the breed, was absolutely 

 bred in Scotland, and a better vermin-killing animal I never saw. 

 I bred from him and a beagle bitch several litters for retrieving 

 purposes, which they fulfilled extremely well; but as his ears 

 were cropped, I have no knowledge of what would have been 

 their shape when entire, nor, indeed, was the resultant cross 

 left uncropped, as I preferred preserving the terrier character 

 as then known rather than that of the beagle. 



