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mine and I also tried inbreeding for three generations. 



The marked features above alluded to cropped out now and 



then, although I will acknowledge one dog a real Terrier 



was a game, big brute, and weighed thirty- three pounds. 



Buffer produced Buffet, claimed by competent judges to 

 have been the most perfectly built Fox Terrier that has to 

 their knowledge existed. He sired little of great value 

 outside of his famous son Buff. This white dog, possessing 

 wonderful legs and feet, great character and symmetry, 

 had a very successful career on the bench, and was exten- 

 sively used at stud. His get was only fair, with the excep- 

 tion of two beautiful daughters, Bloom and Blossom. 



Buff was cursed with periodical attacks of eczema, and 

 this, with the fact that careless use of his blood and 

 attempts at inbreeding brought out large ears and bad 

 heads, soon caused his blood to be discarded for the more 

 successful families that followed his period. Certainly, 

 what Buff produced for Mr. Lawrence to Jeopardy and 

 some other bitches in this country was not good. I had a 

 bitch inbred to him, with which I never succeeded in rear- 

 ing a fit puppy to escape the stable-pail. Messrs. Ruther- 

 furd had a nice little son of Buff, called Nailer, who got 

 some very neat Terriers, such as they were in America at 

 the time he figured on our benches. Mr. Gushing, of Bos- 

 ton, has, however, to-day a very useful dog by Buff, out of 

 Jeopardy. If anyone desires the old dog's blood, I dare 

 say his services might be obtained. 



True, Buff enters into the Clark strain, through Rollick, 

 but it only appears as a small and useful ingredient. 

 Where, however, we to-day see this blood jump suddenly 

 to the front, is through Mr. Yicary's kennels. Its cross 

 with the Foilers, through Splinter, in his hands, has 

 given us Yesuvienne and Yenio. The extent to which 

 the latter is being used at stud and I hear with success 

 and the fact that I have four young sons of his out of 

 Rachel coming on who are likely, bar accidents, to dis- 

 seminate the blood in this country, makes the study of 

 this fortunate combination interesting. The simplest way 



