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also is credited with one outcross, in his grandam, Nell, a 

 bitch of Foiler and Buff blood. In the main, however, the 

 Clark Terriers trace to Brockenhurst Rally and the two 

 bitches Jess and Rollick. 



It is undoubtedly Brockenhurst Rally' s Belvoir blood, as 

 well as the care and intelligence of Messrs. Clark's hand- 

 ling, which has permitted the inbreeding of these Terriers 

 to be so remarkably successful. 



The striking features of the Clark Terriers are a tend- 

 ency to uniformity in markings, all black, or black with 

 very little dark tan markings on the head, predominating; 

 white bodies, of course, or white bodies with black patches 

 accompanying; a high average of well-carried and excep- 

 tionally small ears; a smooth outline, their muscles being 

 beautifully distributed and showing no "bossiness;" excel- 

 lent coats, legs, and feet; grand ribs and loins; and they 

 are, from my own experience, very game and good workers. 

 Their peculiarities naturally appear persistently, and are 

 domed skulls, shoulders not oblique enough, and con- 

 sequently a tendency to stand out at the elbows, thereby 

 sometimes in the judging ring throwing away well-deserved 

 prizes before a judge fastidious on the question of narrow 

 and straight fronts. 



Returning to Russley Toff, a dog I have not seen, but 

 which my kennel manager, Mr. German Hopkins, saw 

 when abroad last spriftg, and has carefully described to me, 

 I should judge to be a dog with all the best features of 

 the Clark Terriers, and with neither of their prominent 

 faults, viz., domed skull or indifferent shoulders. Toff is a 

 beautifully fronted dog; in fact, that would have to be the 

 case for Mr. Redmond to own him, he being uncompromis- 

 ingly wedded to that most important of all points in a Fox 

 Terrier. 



Toff's outcross is, however, right back into the blood the 

 Messrs. Clark drew from. He is by Stipendiary, a son of 

 Rachel's son Reckon, out of Shindy, a granddaughter on 

 both sides of Belgrave Joe. His dam is by Regent, out of 

 Rutty. Rutty is by Brockenhnrst Joe, Rally' s sire, out of a 



