. 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 OLD WORKING TERRIER. 317 We have seen the process of a sudden leap into recognition enacted during the past few years in connection with the white terrier of the Western Highlands—a dog which was familiarly known in Argyllshire centuries ago, yet which has only lately emerged from the heathery hillsides around PoltaUoch to become an attraction on the benches at the Crystal Palace and on the lawns of the Bo
. 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 OLD WORKING TERRIER. 317 We have seen the process of a sudden leap into recognition enacted during the past few years in connection with the white terrier of the Western Highlands—a dog which was familiarly known in Argyllshire centuries ago, yet which has only lately emerged from the heathery hillsides around PoltaUoch to become an attraction on the benches at the Crystal Palace and on the lawns of the Botanical Gardens ; and the example suggests the possibility that in won for the English terriers their name and fame. Of the old-fashioned sort was Boxer, concerning whom Mr. George Lowe writes :— " I possessed many years ago some very good working rough terriers, and had pretty well the run of a forest and marshes to kill what I liked, bar the game. On one occasion I was hunting a stream for water-rats or what- not, when my companion, a very old friend, exclaimed : ' Look out! Boxer's got a rat! '. OLD ENGLISH WORKING TERRIERS. From "The Sportsman's Cabinet" (1803). By P. Reinagle, , another decade or so the neglected Sealy Ham Terrier, the ignored terrier of the Borders, and the almost forgotten Jack Russell strain, may have claimed a due recompense for their long neglect. There are lovers of the hard-bitten work- ing " earth dogs" who still keep these strains inviolate, and who greatly prefer them to the better-known terriers whose natural activities have been too often atro- phied by a system of artificial breeding to show points. Few of these old unregistered breeds would attract the eye of the fancier accustomed to judge a dog parading before him in the show ring. To know their value and to appreciate their sterling good qualities, one needs to watch them at work on badger or when they hit upon the line of an otter. It is then that they disp
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