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Symmetry in a dog regarded only for his beauty is of course 

 valued accordingly. 



(B) THE WHITE ENGLISH TEREIEB. 



This breed until very recently has fallen into neglect, but 

 "within the last four or five years attempts have been made to 

 resuscitate it, with some success. In the early days of shows, 

 and notably at Islington in 1862, Mr. White of Clapham 

 carried all before him with his strain of pure white English 

 terriers, but after that time few good specimens were shown 

 until 1876, when Mr. G-. Stables of Manchester came out with a 

 strain superior in form to that of Mr. "White, and indeed exactly 

 resembling the Manchester terrier in shape, with more hair than 

 Mr. White's terriers possessed. His kennel had evidently been 

 too much inbred, and probably owing to this cause the strain 

 seems to have died out. 



This dog is judged by the same scale as the Manchester 

 terrier, except that the 30 points unequally divided between 

 coat and colour are here equally valued, each being allotted 15. 

 A pure and opaque white is considered essential, without any ten- 

 dency to pink or yellow, and the skin should be so well covered 

 that no part is bare except the belly. The eyes, nose, and claws 

 should be as dark as in the Manchester dog. 



XVII.— THE BEDLINGTON TERRIER. 



Until within the last ten or twelve years this breed was un- 

 known beyond the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, and 

 Westmoreland, and it was long before the general public would 



