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Russell one day, as he stood listening to his 

 famous dog Tip, marking energetically in a 

 long drain some six feet below the surface ; 

 "you know then w4iere they are, and what 

 they're about." 



The late Earl Fitzhardinge, one of the 

 finest sportsmen of his day, was wont to give a 

 very similar reason for mounting his whips on 

 confirmed roarers. 



" I like to know where the beggars are," 

 he would say ; " for, with the bagpipes going, I 

 can hear, if I don't see them, in the densest 

 cover." 



Entered early, and only at fox, Russell's ter- 

 riers were as steady from riot as the staunchest 

 of his hounds ; so that, running together with 

 them, and never passing over an earth without 

 drawing it, they gave a fox, whether above 

 ground or below it, but a poor chance of not 

 being found, either by one or the other. A 

 squeak from a terrier was the sure signal of a 

 find, and there was not a hound in the pack 

 that would not fly to it, as eagerly as to 

 Russell's horn, or his own wild and marvellous 

 scream. 



This steadiness from riot was, of course, 

 the result of early education on one object — the 

 fox ; nor did Russell consider it needful to 

 train his terriers by progressive steps, according 

 to the plan adopted by Dandie Dinmont. 



