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Title: The American book of the dog. The origin, development, special characteristics, utility, breeding, training, points of judging, diseases, and kennel management of all breeds of dogs
Identifier: americanbookofdo00shie (find matches)
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Shields, G. O. (George O. ), 1846-1925, ed
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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434 THE AMERICAlSr BOOK OF THE DOG. shows, aud the breed commanded considerable attention, especially when the dog had plenty of courage and intelligence; but this was the exception. As a rule, the show Terrier is not a hardy nor a courageous dog. Most of his life has been passed in a higiily varnished mahogany kennel, by a bar-parlor fire, or in the arms of some opulent or quasi-opulent dog-breeder, whose chief voca- tion is to show his " stud " of Terriers for cups and collars. Twenty-five years ago the colored or partly colored dog, fallow, or even brindled, or with head and body markings, would have had a chance of a prize at these public-house meetings; but since the exhibition of dogs has been a prominent feature in the fashionable amusements of hirge cities, the dog has been so cultivated that white dogs only are admissible.
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WHITE ENGLISH TERRIER—WHITE PRINCE ( A. K. C. S. B. 16733). Owned by Mr. E. F. Burns, Taunton. Mass. I have little doul )t that these London and Manchester Terriers were the pick " of what are now commonly received as Fox Terriers, purchased up and down the country by those agents who have a roving commission to snap up" anything which they can fiufl" which is neat and salable. These smart country Terriers were collected in London by the keen-eyed "fancy," and from these the White Terrier was gradually produced. None of these breeders can trace their breed for many years; and all the best white dogs were the sons of one known in London as King Dick. He was succeeded by his son, known as Young King Dick; but neither of these dogs, so far as I remember, were equal to some dogs exhibited in 1863, by Frederick White, of Crescent Lane, Clapham Common, named Fly, Laddie, Nettle, and Teddy. Twenty dogs were entered in the class, but Mr. White's were the

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