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sport ; and, in fact, when, in 1802, he was winning glory among the 

 followers of the leash, and his letters to the Earl of Darlington were 

 in the Press, pure white Terriers were already specially recognised as 

 one of the colours approved by Fashion. That Colonel Thornton 

 had a partiality for the white variety seems probable, for in describing 

 a fox-hunt in the Forete Verte he says : " My Terrier, a beautiful 

 white dog, was also lost." Mr. Doyle is also in error in making 

 the author of " The Sportsman's Cabinet " say that the Wire-haired 

 Terrier was larger than the Smooth variety. 



Most practical fanciers will endorse the views expressed by Mr. 

 Scott and Mr. Doyle, that the best Terriers we now have are those 

 possessing in greatest purity the blood of the Kennel Terrier of the 

 early part of last century, for emulation in breeding for beauty of 

 form and colour had been then well established, and has undoubtedly 

 gone steadily on ever since. It is only because so much curiosity 

 has been expressed as to the kind of dogs from which these Kennel 

 Terriers were originally drawn that an endeavour has been made 

 to throw any light possible on the subject. 



In regard to what may be called the immediate and known 

 roots from which our present-day Fox-terriers have sprung, 

 personal memory of some, and knowledge gleaned from the older 

 fanciers, come to our assistance. Mr. Doyle, frorn personal know- 

 ledge, describes the Cheshire and Shropshire strains, most notable 

 of which he considers was that of Mr. Domeville Pool, a strain 

 bred for pluck, and to match as a pack ; from these came the 

 Terriers of Mr. Stevenson, of Chester, well known some thirty odd 

 years ago, and of this kennel most notable was Tartar, sire of 

 Tyke and Trumps. 



Mr. Doyle next endorses the opinions expressed in what he 

 justly calls the admirable account given by " Peeping Tom " of the 

 Belvoir and Grove strains. Old Trap, although destitute of a 

 recorded pedigree, receives Mr. Doyle's strong praise, on the ground 

 of the famous Terriers that trace back to him. Of this celebrated 

 dog the Kennel Club Stud Book says : " He was believed to 

 have some black-and-tan blood in him. Mr. German Hopkins, 

 in an article on Fox-terriers, stated that Trap was a black-and- 

 tan dog ; but Mr. S. W. Smith, whose knowledge of the early 

 Fox-terriers is extensive, was informed by Colonel Arkwright, of 

 the Oakley, who owned Old Trap, that the dog was by a grand 

 Kennel Terrier out of a handsome black-and-tan bitch owned by 

 a villager living near the Kennels. The late Mr. Luke Turner, 

 however, always had his doubts about Old Trap's pedigree, and 

 believed the dog to have been sired by Tip, owned by a Leicester 

 miller, Hitchcock by name. On the same authority we have it 

 that the dog was noted for his courage, and that all the keepers 

 in the vicinity bred to this dog. He believed that Arkwright's 



