. 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 SCOTTISH TERRIER. 383 It was this letter of " Strathbogie's" that brought forth as a rejoinder the verses which head this chapter, for in the said letter " Strathbogie " complains that in an article written some time previously by Dr. Gordon Stables on the breed, the doctor, a Scots- man, appeared to class Scottish Terriers with " the sUly long-wooUed Toys of Brad- ford," and
. 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 SCOTTISH TERRIER. 383 It was this letter of " Strathbogie's" that brought forth as a rejoinder the verses which head this chapter, for in the said letter " Strathbogie " complains that in an article written some time previously by Dr. Gordon Stables on the breed, the doctor, a Scots- man, appeared to class Scottish Terriers with " the sUly long-wooUed Toys of Brad- ford," and he goes on to say, " Now I am not second to the funny doctor in my admiration (love, if you like) for ' flowing tresses,' still I prefer such to adorn the shapely head of a bonnie Highland lassie to seeing them covering the backs of Scotch Terriers "—a sentiment, no doubt, with which not one of the many male admirers of the Scottish Terrier of the present day wiU fall out. " Strath- MR. J. DEANE WILLIS' CH. CARTER LADDIE BY CAMOWEN LADDIE CARTER JEAN. bogie's" letter had also the effect of drawing from his lair "The Badger," who, writing shortly afterwards in the same periodical, says he quite agrees with "Strathbogie's " description of the breed, but adds that he fancies there are also some of a sandy colour, that their ears may be either drop or prick, and that he prefers them of 14 lb. to 16 lb. weight, long and low, with a hard wire coat and straight in the fore-legs, " though sometimes they will be found slightly ; There can be no doubt that the present- day Scottish Terrier owes a great deal to "The Badger" and "; These two gentlemen, despite many set- backs, stuck to their point, and eventually were rewarded by the late Mr. S. E. Shirley, then President of the Kennel Club, who seems to have been very popular with Scotch- men—as, indeed, he was with everyone— granting their reque
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