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we are brought down pretty much to the present 

 generation. 



There had been favoured strains of fox terriers 

 kept at many of the hound kennels ; Mr. Slingsby, 

 at Scriven Park, Yorkshire, had them, so had Mr. 

 Donville Poole, Marbury Hall, Shropshire ; Sir 

 Watkin Wynne, in Wales, and Lord Hill, in Shrop- 

 shire. The Rev. John Russell, too, had a good 

 strain ; Mr. Cheriton, likewise, in the West of Eng- 

 land ; Mr. Ffrance, in Cheshire ; the Rufford ; the 

 Tynedale ; the Grove ; the Old Berkeley ; Mr. 

 Farquharson in Dorsetshire ; the Duke of Beaufort, 

 the Hon. T. W. Fitzwilliam, Ben Morgan, Will 

 Goodall, George Beers, Lord Henry Bentinck, Burton, 

 Constable, in Lincolnshire ; Belvoir, Albrighton, 

 Atherton, the Duke of Rutland, and the Brocklesby 

 hunt, all had terriers of their own, which were valued 

 highly, and to them one way and another are we 

 indebted for the modern fox terrier. 



One strain has, or at any rate should have, 

 improved another, until an ideal and perfect fox 

 terrier had been reached. But I am afraid the 

 result has not, so far, been quite so satisfactory as 

 it might have been. With all the material at hand 

 one would have considered it easy enough to 

 breed almost perfect fox terriers to order. Such is 

 certainly not the case, and, although the multitude 



