. Fig. 15.—YORKSHIRE TERRIER, LADY GIFFARD'S KATIE, his self-assertion of dignity, his beard of approved cut and color, faultless whiskers of Dundreary type, and coat of absolute perfec- tion, without one hair awry, one cannot help feeling that he is but a dandy after all. Although so very modern, it is difficult to trace satisfactorily the pedigree of this breed; indeed, pedigree he maybe said at present to have none, and it is hard to say out of what materials he was manufactured ; but the warp and woof of him appear to have been the common long-coated black and tan, and the lighter- colored
. Fig. 15.—YORKSHIRE TERRIER, LADY GIFFARD'S KATIE, his self-assertion of dignity, his beard of approved cut and color, faultless whiskers of Dundreary type, and coat of absolute perfec- tion, without one hair awry, one cannot help feeling that he is but a dandy after all. Although so very modern, it is difficult to trace satisfactorily the pedigree of this breed; indeed, pedigree he maybe said at present to have none, and it is hard to say out of what materials he was manufactured ; but the warp and woof of him appear to have been the common long-coated black and tan, and the lighter- colored specimens of what is known as the Glasgow or Paisley Skye terrier, the former of no certain purity, and the latter an ad- mitted mongrel; and from which I think the Yorkshire gets the softness and length of coat due to Maltese blood. In shape this
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