. 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. THE WIRE-HAIR FOX-TERRIER. 353 badger tan and black on a wonderful head and ears, this bitch swept the board, as they saj^, and unquestionably rightly so. Wire-hair terriers used to be much more takinglj^ marked than is the case at the present day. One constantly saw a hound-. MR. J. J. HOLGATES CH. SOUTHBORO' SALEX BY CH, SYLVAN RESULT MARCHARD CORONA. marked dog with plenty of badger tan about him, but he is
. 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. THE WIRE-HAIR FOX-TERRIER. 353 badger tan and black on a wonderful head and ears, this bitch swept the board, as they saj^, and unquestionably rightly so. Wire-hair terriers used to be much more takinglj^ marked than is the case at the present day. One constantly saw a hound-. MR. J. J. HOLGATES CH. SOUTHBORO' SALEX BY CH, SYLVAN RESULT MARCHARD CORONA. marked dog with plenty of badger tan about him, but he is not seen to anything like the same extent nowadays. A brindle- marked dog is ne\"er seen now, and although this marking is supposed in practice to incur the penalty of disqualification, yet in all truth, if it be a brindle of dark colour, it is a most taking colouring, and one for which some judges—the writer among them —would not by any means disqualify an otherwise good, sound terrier. It will be seen that brindle markings are not included in " disqualifying points " as laid down by the Fox-terrier Club. All that is said is that they are objectionable, the idea, of course, being that they show the Bull- terrier, which is undesirable, but in this connection what to the writer is much more objectionable, in that they look much more Bull-terrier like, are the pink eyelids and extra short coats, almost invariably to be seen on all white terriers which are occasion- ally exhibited. No article on the wire-hair Fox-terrier would be complete without mentioning the name of the late Mr. S. E. Shirley, President of the Kennel Club. Mr. Shirley was a successful exhibitor in the early days of the variety, and while his terriers were a good-looking lot, though not up to the show form of to-day, they were invariably hard- bitten, game dogs, kept chiefly for work. }iIt. Shirley was induced to judge wire-hairs at the Fox-terrier Club show about four or fiYQ years ago, when
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