ii 4 DOMESTICATED DOGS. 



our shows are generally occupied by specimens more or less 

 approaching the proper type in form. 



In the present day, our English terrier, to be en regie, must be 

 either black and tan, and is then called the Manchester terrier, or 

 pure white. The latter , is much admired by a select few, but 

 the former prevails to a much greater extent throughout the 

 country, Manchester, however, being still the headquarters of 

 the breed. Since the successive advent into fashion of the 

 Dandie, the Skye, and the fox-terrier, and to a lesser extent of 

 the Bedlington and the Halifax terriers, the old English dbg has 

 fallen into comparative insignificance ; but this is purely a matter 

 of fashion, for he was, without doubt, in former times fully the 

 equal of each and all the above-mentioned varieties,, in every 

 point which goes to make up a companionable house-dog, as well 

 as a dog useful out of doors for rabbit or vermin hunting. Un- 

 fortunately, in the early part of this century, in order -to increase 

 his elegance, recourse was had to the Italian greyhound, producing 

 a cross intermediate between the two in shape, but retaining the 

 delicacy of constitution and cowardice of the greyhound to such 

 an extent as to make the dog unfit for the purposes to which 

 young men generally put their pets. This little dog was then 

 generally known as the spider-terrier, but he is now altogether 

 out of fashion ; the ladies, who greatly admired him at first, 

 having discarded him in favour of the fox-terrier, which is 

 certainly more in accordance with their Ulster coats than the 

 poor little trembling animal who formerly shared their caresses 

 with his foreign parent, the pug, or the Blenheim spaniel. 

 Whether or not show English terriers of the present time still 

 go back to the Italian, it is admitted that they are not so hardy 

 and courageous as the fox-terrier, the Bedlington, or the Dandie, 

 and consequently there may be some reason for the neglect of the 



