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describes them as being " 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 by one 

 or the other." Two things are fairly evident that they excelled 

 in the particular work which Russell required of them, and that, 

 while being essentially workmen, they would not, judging from 

 the descriptions furnished of them, have disgraced the show-bench 



FIG. 95. A MODERN CHAMPION SMOOTH-HAIRED FOX-TERRIER, 

 MR. C. HOULKER'S ADAM BEDE. 



even of the present day. Below is a word-picture of the famous 

 bitch Trump, who laid the foundation of a strain whose doughty 

 deeds in the hunting-field even Time is hardly likely to efface. 

 Purchased of a milkman in the vicinity of Oxford, she was the 

 parson's ideal of a Fox-terrier, and lived to bring him fame alike in 

 this country and abroad. The writer has many times endeavoured 

 to learn something as to the ancestors of this famous bitch, and 

 has prosecuted enquiries in many directions. Though he has 

 succeeded in tracing the name of the man from whom Russell 

 purchased her, not even the oldest inhabitant seems to remember 



