The Fox Terrier. 105 



As I have said, a commencement of the extra- 

 ordinarily popular career of the modern fox terrier 

 was made thirty years ago. At that time few dog 

 shows had been held, the first one of all, in 1859 

 at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Needless is it to say that 

 there was no class for fox terriers then, nor was there 

 at Birmingham, Leeds, and Manchester, following in 

 successive years. Of course in the variety class for 

 terriers, a few that had run with hounds were entered, 

 but the first division ever arranged in which they were 

 to compete only with their own variety was instituted 

 at the North of England second exhibition of sporting 

 and other dogs, held in Islington Agricultural Hall, 

 June, 1862. Here a class for fox terriers headed 

 the catalogue ; there were twenty entries, and the 

 winner of the first prize was Trimmer, a dog without 

 pedigree, and shown by the late Mr. Harvey Bayly, 

 then of Ickwell House, Biggleswade, later master of 

 the Rufford. If we mistake not, this was a coarsish- 

 looking, workmanlike dog, hound tan and black 

 marked, whose strain was that of the Oakley terriers, 

 the kennels of which were not far away from 

 Mr. Bayly's residence. 



In 1862, when what is now the Birmingham 

 National Exhibition was held at the Old Wharf in 

 Broad-street, there was a class for " White and 

 Other Smooth-haired English Terriers, except Black 



