no Modern Dogs. 



only, whilst I believe Trap was not shown more 

 than half a dozen times, his best performance being 

 when he came second to Jock at Birmingham in 

 1862. 



That extraordinary bitch Grove Nettle should be 

 mentioned here, for to her quite as much as to any 

 one of the couple and a half of terriers already 

 named is due a share in the present production. 

 Bred in 1862 by W. Merry, huntsman to the Grove 

 Hounds, there does not appear to be any mystery 

 as to her pedigree, she being by the Grove Tartar 

 from the Rev. W. Handley's Sting. Nettle was a 

 prettily shaped, tan-headed bitch, with a black mark 

 on her side, a rather long, wavy coat, almost inclined 

 to be broken haired. The Hon. T. W. Fitzwilliam, 

 her owner, said "the difficulty was to keep her 

 above ground." Another good judge said " there 

 was not a more useful animal in the show when she 

 was exhibited in the champion class at Birmingham 

 in 1868," and he further described her as rather 

 long in the body, and although possessing immense 

 bone, not losing one iota in quality. At the Kennel 

 Club, Cleveland-row, may be seen all that remains 

 of this grand bitch, for she is there set up in a case, 

 looking as hideous and unlike that which she was 

 in nature as " stuffed " dogs do nine times out of 

 ten. 



