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and it is strange so few perfect ones are bred 

 amongst these thousands. Surely there never was 

 such a popular dog, and he, unlike his noble 

 master, does not appear to become spoiled by 

 flattery, and by the adulation of the wealthy. In 

 manners he is the same he always was, his eyes 

 brighten and he springs up to attention when he 

 hears the cry " Rats ! " now when he is worth ^"200 

 just as he did when he was a comparative street dog, 

 arid worth less than a five pound note. 



As I have already hinted, in appearance he 

 has changed rather ; at present he is a somewhat 

 leggy, flat-ribbed dog, and is as a rule deficient 

 in expression and character compared with what he 

 was in the early days. Still, Major How, of near 

 Gloucester, shows every now and then as terrier-like 

 dogs as the best of the older race, his Stardens 

 Sting and Stardens King to wit. Messrs. Vicary, 

 too, have many dogs abounding with character in 

 their kennels, some of them, however, higher on the 

 legs than I like. The Messrs. Clarke's champion 

 Result and their Rachel were terriers, but this 

 kennel has not produced much of note since I wrote 

 the " History of the Fox Terrier," whilst another 

 kennel, which to- my mind has produced the best 

 style of terrier of modern times, that of the late 

 Mr. F. Burbidge, is now reckoned with the " has 



