THE SCOTCH TERRIER. 



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Up to the year 1875 an attempt was made to keep the breed 

 before the public by nominally allotting to it a class ; but when 

 „the prizes in it always fell to such dogs as Mrs. Foster's "Dun- 

 dreary" and Miss Alderson's "Mozart," as was the case in 1873, 

 the class was abandoned and special ones constituted for wire- 

 haired terriers, to exclude the Halifax strain, which was defined 



' Peto," a Scotch Terrier. 



as " broken-haired." But alas for our poof Scottish friend ! No 

 sooner was the nationality dropped than Mr. Sanderson's rough 

 breed of fox-terriers came to the front, and since that time they 

 have kept there. As I have already remarked, I know little 

 difference between them and the old-fashioned Scotchman, but in 

 any case, for show purposes the latter breed is extinct. 



