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round, and arched, with a good thick sole. This is of much 

 importance, as a dog with a thin sole soon gets footsore. The 

 thighs, of course, should be muscular, and the hocks straight and well 

 let down. The tail should be strong, and set on rather high ; and 

 the coat hard and abundant, but close and smooth. The carriage of 

 a good Terrier should be gay and lively, and the expression of the 

 face intelligent and good-tempered. There is one thing I want 

 particularly to impress on readers, and that is that a Fox-terrier 

 should in no way resemble 'a brick with the corners knocked off' 

 or * a Shorthorn ' a simile that has frequently been used by more 

 than one writer on Fox-terriers. Could any one imagine an animal 

 whose formation is less adapted for speed and endurance than 

 a Shorthorn, unless a brick could be endowed with life ? If a 

 Fox-terrier's build had been likened to a Foxhound or a good hunter, 

 I would have agreed ; but a Shorthorn or a brick, never ! " 



Those who would like to further peep into the family history 

 of the old Kennel Terriers, which Mr. Scott has so ably written 

 about, will find plenty of information in the "Fox-terrier Stud 

 Book," five vols. of which were edited by the late Mr. Hugh Dalziel, 

 and published by Mr. L. Upcott Gill ; while others have been 

 produced under the direction of the Fox-terrier Club. 



As we have it on the high authority of " The Sportsman's 

 Cabinet" that at the beginning of last century the proprietors of 

 Foxhounds were exceedingly nice in their selection of Terriers, 

 and equally emulous upon the superiority of their qualifications, 

 and as the desire to possess specimens of the best breeding had 

 then taken hold of the upper classes, the moulding of the Fox- 

 terrier into his present form may be said to have begun with the 

 century. 



The lost, or rather the unwoven, threads of Terrier genealogy 

 have, in the preceding passages, been in part taken up by Mr. Scott 

 from traditional lore, and in the same way those with an intimate 

 knowledge of the past history of other of our hound kennels might 

 throw light on the evolution of the modern Smooth Fox-terrier. 



Mr. J. A. Doyle, whose knowledge of Fox-terriers and ability 

 as a judge stand high, has followed in the lines adopted by Mr. 

 Scott, whose lead he acknowledges in his contribution to Mr. 

 Vero Shaw's " Book of the Dog." 



Mr. Doyle refers to the early history of this dog, and in doing 

 so he has fallen into several errors more or less material. He 

 states that Colonel Thornton was a sportsman of the last half of 

 the eighteenth century, and quotes an opinion that from his bitch 

 Patch most of the white Terriers of the country were descended. 

 Colonel Thornton was still an active sportsman in the first decade 

 of the last century, alike in hunting, coursing, and other fields of 



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