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valuable animals. Jock I have written fetched 

 about 60, Tartar sold for ^30, after being adver- 

 tised in the Field for some time for less money. 



Old Trap, the third of the " pillars," is also of 

 doubtful pedigree. The " Kennel Club Stud Book " 

 says: u Mr. J. H. D. Bayly purchased him of Mr. 

 Cockayne, then kennel man to the Oakley Hounds, 

 and later at the Tickham kennels. Mr. Cockayne 

 bought him from a groom of Mr. Isted's, well 

 known in the Pytchley Hunt." Mr. Luke Turner, 

 one of our very oldest admirers of the fox terrier, 

 believes Trap's sire was a dog called Tip, owned 

 by Mr. Hitchcock, a miller in Leicester. This dog 

 bore a reputation for extraordinary gameness, and 

 was the favourite sire used by all the sporting 

 characters in the district. The coachman of Mr. 

 C. Arkwright, then master of the Oakley, put a 

 bitch to this dog Tip, and the result of the alliance 

 was Trap. 



The late Rev. T. O'Grady informed the writer 

 that Trap's dam was a heavily marked fox terrier 

 i.e., one with an unusual amount of black and tan 

 colour on her body and head, and Mr. O'Grady's 

 story was corroborated by the late Mr. S. W. Smith, 

 who for many years was one of the leading authori- 

 ties on the fox terrier. 



Old Trap never realised a big sum, ^25, when 



