A book written in 1902 called the Dog Shows And Doggy People
Mr. Pratt must be one of the oldest Skye fanciers left amongst us. At one time he had the finest kennel, at any rate in England, of the breed, and told me he has bred more than a thousand of them in his time!
In the portrait I have received from this well-known fancier he will be seen wearing a Scottish bonnet, one hundred years old, and formerly belonging to Gordon Cumming (whose books on Big Game Hunting in Africa, etc., we have, some of us, read), accompanied by his Skye White Piper, whom he considered an albino, so rarely is pure white seen in that variety; and on this point the writer, in a long experience of Skyes, can say that he remembers only once before seeing a specimen of that colour, more than twenty-five years since, when he was travelling in the Island of Skye.
MR. JAMES PRATT WITH HIS SKYE TERRIER WHITE PIPER |