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De Fouilloux, Stevens, and Liebault all French authors and 

 Turberville, Surflet, Goodge, and other English writers dealing more 

 or less with dogs, who have, partially at least, made up for this 

 omission. The works of De Fouilloux, a contemporary writer with 

 Stevens, a physician of Paris, are not well known. Liebault, also, 

 a doctor of medicine, simply edited and added to Dr. Stevens's 

 " Maison Rustique," but added nothing that concerns us here. 

 Surflet, another physician, translated Dr. Stevens's book. 



Taking the description of the Fox-terrier of that date, as given 

 by Stevens through Surflet, and comparing it with that given by 

 Turberville, there is an agreement in the main, jyet with such 

 difference as to make it clear that they did not copy the one from 

 the other, and possibly that Turberville, the earlier translator, did 

 not even consult Stevens, although that author's date would have 

 enabled him to do so. As Turberville admits having taken his matter 

 from various authors, and as his contemporaries and he agree in 

 substance, it seems as if all of them (including De Fouilloux) had 

 taken their matter to a great extent from still older writers, with all 

 too slight, and most certainly with too indefinite, acknowledgment. 

 Finger-posts to indicate the way to these older writers are, however, 

 wanting. It would serve no good purpose to traverse the well- 

 trodden ground dealing with the ancient history of the Fox-terrier, 

 and covering the time when Dr. Stevens wrote the work above 

 named to that when Sydenham Edwards issued his " Cynographia 

 Britannica " in 1800, or Samuel Howitt "The British Sportsman" 

 in 1812. Those desirous of doing so should consult "The Fox- 

 terrier Monograph," published by Mr. L. Upcott Gill, or " The 

 Fox-terrier," issued by Mr. Horace Cox. 



In Samuel Hewitt's " The British Sportsman " is a collection of 

 seventy coloured plates, published in 1812. No. 40 represents a 

 Terrier with a rat in his mouth ; the dog is a black-and-tan, with 

 natural prick ears and a rather short, neat, apparently undocked tail, 

 thicker at the setting-on than is seen on our show specimens, and 

 tapering to a fine point. The three Terriers drawn by Reinagle, 

 and engraved by Scott for "The Sportsman's Cabinet," are all 

 stouter made than that drawn by Howitt. Of the three, one is 

 disappearing into a fox or a badger earth ; another is represented as 

 dark in colour, with white neck and feet ; and the third is white, 

 with what the modern Terrier advertiser would call an " evenly 

 marked black-and-tan head, with spot at setting-on of stern." The 

 bitch represented was, however, yellow-pied. The two seen appear 

 to have natural prick ears ; and if the tail is docked at all, but 

 few joints could have been removed. The coat would appear to 

 be one in length between that of our modern Smooth and Wire- 

 haired Fox-terriers. 



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