. 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. 346 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. a short time he becomes the more popular dog of the two. The inherent merit possessed by the wire- hair has gradually but surely brought him forward until he is now a very serious rival to the smooth. A suggestion that such a thing were possible, some few years back, would have been laughed to scorn, but as testimony to it one cannot do better than. MR, WALTER S. GLYNN'S CH. LAST O
. 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. 346 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. a short time he becomes the more popular dog of the two. The inherent merit possessed by the wire- hair has gradually but surely brought him forward until he is now a very serious rival to the smooth. A suggestion that such a thing were possible, some few years back, would have been laughed to scorn, but as testimony to it one cannot do better than. MR, WALTER S. GLYNN'S CH. LAST O' REMUS BY ROYSTON REMUS BRYNHIR BLOSSOM. read the words used by a well-known judge of both varieties, in a report of his published in The Kennel Gazette, of February, 1907, in which he makes some pertinent remarks on this subject, and prognosticates that from what he has recently seen when judging at different shows, it is not at all improbable that verj' shortly the wire-hair will altogether eclipse in point of merit and numbers his smooth relative, \Mien one considers that these remarks emanate from one of the very oldest and most successful breeders of the smooth in existence, and that he (Mr. Robert Vicary) ne\-er, as far as the writer's memory serves him, owned a wire-hair in his life, the ^'alue of such testimony must readily be admitted. The career of the wire-hair has up to the last few years been a very hard one, the obstacles in his way have been stupendous. One such has already been dealt with— the fact tliat his smooth brother has been much more popularly owoied. Others may be described as :— 2. Injudicious breeding operations. 3. Scant courtesy received at the hands of many of the owners of the smooth variety and others. 4. Incompetency of gentlemen appointed to officiate as judges of the variety at several of the shows. 5. Unenviable notoriety attained through his being most unfairly made the scapegoat of "; This list, although probably not c
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