cur-terrier

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This exalted value of Skye Dog, in a commercial point of view, has, of course, given rise to the manufacture of a spurious article; whence it comes, that, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the animal palmed off on the unsophisticated as genuine has nothing of the real stuff in his constitution, but is simply a shallow imitation, compounded according to prescription, one part common cur-terrier to two parts insignificant French poodle.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859