This section is from the book "British Dogs: Their Varieties, History, Characteristics, Breeding, Management, And Exhibition", by Hugh Dalziel. Also available from Amazon: British Dogs.
This is quite a rarity in this country, but a few have been exhibited, and attracted considerable attention as curiosities.
Rather higher than a fox terrier, they are also longer in the back, and altogether lighter in build, approaching nearer to the greyhound in conformation.
They are, except on the head, along the top of neck, and at the end of tail, quite hairless, if we further except single hairs scattered about the body at wide intervals.
On the head the hair is rather profuse, forming a crest, and the tuft on end of tail is quite bushy; and these, with the spotted or marbled skin, give the dog to English eyes a more singular than attractive appearance. Along the top of the neck the hair grows short and fairly thick, something like the "hogged mane of a pony."
 
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