. The new book of the dog; a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment. Dogs. 355. A LITTER OF AIREDALES BY HUCKLEBERRY FINN. Photograph by H. W. NichoUs. CHAPTER XXXVI. THE AIREDALE TERRIER. BY WALTER S. GLYNN. " The rustic dames Shall at thy kennel wait, and in their laps Receive thy growing hopes; with many a kiss Caress, and dignify their little charge With some great title, and resounding name Of high ; —SOMERVILLE. THERE is perhaps no breed of dog that in so short
. The new book of the dog; a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment. Dogs. 355. A LITTER OF AIREDALES BY HUCKLEBERRY FINN. Photograph by H. W. NichoUs. CHAPTER XXXVI. THE AIREDALE TERRIER. BY WALTER S. GLYNN. " The rustic dames Shall at thy kennel wait, and in their laps Receive thy growing hopes; with many a kiss Caress, and dignify their little charge With some great title, and resounding name Of high ; —SOMERVILLE. THERE is perhaps no breed of dog that in so short a time has been improved so much as the Airedale. He is now a very beautiful animal, whereas but a few years back, although maybe there were a few fairly nice specimens, by far the greater number were certainly the reverse of this. In place of the shaggy, soft-coated, ugly- coloured brute with large hound ears and big full eyes, we have now a very handsome creature, possessing all the points that go to make a reaUy first-class terrier of taking colour, symmetrical build, fuU of character and "go," amply justifying—in looks, at any rate—its existence as a terrier. Whether it is common sense to call a dog weighing 40 lb. to 50 lb. a terrier is a ques- tion that one often hears discussed. The fact remains the dog is a terrier—a sort of glorified edition of what we understand by the word, it is true, but in points, looks. and character, a terrier nevertheless, and it is impossible otherwise to classify him. People win ask : " How can he be a terrier ? Why, he is an outrage on the very word, which can only mean a dog to go to ground ; and to what animal in the country of his birth can an Airedale go to ground ? " Above ground and in water, however, an Airedale can, and does, per- form in a very excellent manner everything that any other terrier can do. As a water dog he is, of course, in his element; for work on land requiring a hard, strong, fast and re
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