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penny piece, marks the root of the tail. The 

 coat, which is thick, close, and a trifle wiry, is 

 well calculated to protect the body from wet 

 and cold, but has no affinity with the long, 

 rough jacket of a Scotch terrier. The legs are 

 straight as arrows, the feet perfect ; the loins 

 and conformation of the whole frame indicative 

 of hardihood and endurance ; while the size 

 and height of the animal may be compared to 

 that of a full-grown vixen fox. 



'' I seldom or ever see a real fox-terrier 

 nowadays," said Russell recently to a friend 

 who was inspecting a dog show containing 

 a hundred and fifty entries under that de- 

 nomination ; " they have so intermingled strange 

 blood with the real article, that, if he were 

 not informed, it would puzzle Professor Bell 

 himself to discover what race the so-called 

 fox-terrier belongs to." 



"And pray, how is it managed?" inquired 

 the friend, eager to profit by Russell's long 

 experience in such matters. " I can w^ell re- 

 member Rubie's and Tom French's Dartmoor 

 terriers, and have myself owned some of that 

 sort worth their weight in gold. True terriers 

 they were, but certainly differing as much from 

 the present show dogs as the wild eglantine 

 differs from a garden rose." 



" The process," replied Russell, " is simply 

 as follows : they begin with a smooth bitch 



