The Terriers. 



There is nothing wrong in the above, nor is 

 there in the following extract from the same author : 

 " Everybody that is a fox hunter is of opinion that 

 he hath a good breed, and some will say that the 

 terrier is a peculiar species of itself. I shall not 

 say anything to the affirmative or negative of the 

 point." Blome concludes by writing that the cross 

 already mentioned " generally proves good ; the 

 result thereof hath courage and a thick skin as 

 participating of the cur, and is mouthed for the 

 beagle." 



Whatever was the case during the seventeenth 

 century, there is no doubt that now the " terrier 

 is a peculiar species of itself," careful and judicious 

 selection during a series of generations having 

 made it as much so as any other quadruped we 

 possess. 



In the " Compleate Sportsman" (1718), Jacobs 

 mentions two sorts of terriers, which he describes 

 pretty much as Nicholas Cox had done before him, 

 so a repetition thereof need not be made here. In 

 fact, with the country overrun as it was in those 

 days, with four-footed vermin of all kinds, which 

 destroyed the poultry and played sad havoc with 

 the flocks, dogs of one kind or another to keep 

 down the marauders were simply a necessity ; and 

 a terrier small enough to drag the fox from his 



