House and Garden 
SCOTCH TERRIERS 
BY J. A. GLASSE 
I 'HE Scotch terrier is one of the most 
useful and amusing pets in the 
canine family. Useful as a watch-dog 
and amusing in its wilfulness. 
In that interesting book, “Lockhart’s 
Life of Sir Walter Scott,” an account 
is given of how in his early days as an 
advocate, Scott was unsuccessful in 
defending a notorious housebreaker. 
SCOTCH TERRIER 
New Castle Kennels, Brookline, Mass. 
After the trial the condemned man asked 
the young lawyer to visit him in prison. 
Scott’s curiosity took him, and when they 
were alone in the cell the man said he 
was sorry he had no fee to offer him but 
would give him two bits of advice as a 
legacy. The first was that when he 
should come to have a house of his own 
not to keep a large watch-dog out-of- 
doors, but to tie a little, tight, yelping 
terrier within. The second bit of advice 
was about the lock of the door. Thirty 
years after, telling this story at a judge’s 
dinner at jedburgh, Scott summed up 
with a rhyme: 
“ Yelping terrier, rusty key, 
Was Walter Scott’s best Jecldart fee.” 
I once saw an instance of sagacity in 
one of these little dogs that shoY ed not 
only wilfulness hut independence of 
thought. I was in an omnibus in the 
outskirts of London w hen a military 
looking man came in, followed, as he 
thought, by his dog, a small wiry-haired 
terrier. Instead of following his master 
into the omnibus the dog mounted the 
steps and went outside. Although 
summer the evening was cool and this, 
no doubt, was the reason his master rode 
inside. Perhaps he had been in a warm 
climate for it was in a western district of 
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