more history on the airedales

By birth and breeding the Airedale is a sport- 
ing terrier. A dog bred originally to do the 
work of a vermin destroyer, he has taken nat- 
urally to all kinds of game. In the Rockies, he 
is used on bear, and he has won a name as a dog 
of exceptional brains, unfailing courage, and re- 
markable stamina at work from which no fool, 
coward, or weakling comes home to supper. On 
the farms of New England, he is cherished as an 
exterminator of wood-chucks, moles, rats, and 
vermin of this class. He hunts all the way down 
the scale from the giant " silver tip " to the 
mouse in the pantry mountain lions, wolves, 
panthers, lynx, wild cats, foxes, coons, skunks, 
rabbits, mink, what not, each and all he hunts 
with equal gusto and success. Is it any won- 
der that though the Airedale is only a little over 
half a century old his fame has spread from pole 
to pole? 

The Airedale is a dog that no one can know 
well without becoming his friend, but all his 
friends do not know him well. For this reason, 
and because so much depends upon one's first 
dog, it seems particularly necessary to give some 
advice to intending Airedale purchasers, whom 
we may divide into dog owners and kennel own- 
ers. By a dog owner I mean one who wants an 
Airedale or two as a companion, guard, and all- 
round dog. Kennel owners are those who intend 
keeping, breeding, and showing or hunting sev- 
eral dogs.