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but, after all, and taking one consideration with 

 another, I do not like the stamp of winning modern 

 fox terriers so well as I did that of my early days, 

 and I know I am not quite alone in this opinion. 



Whether it is worth while giving a list of what I 

 consider to have been and are actually the best of 

 the race since showing has introduced them to the 

 front, is an open question. Perhaps for future 

 reference it may be well for me to do so ; at any 

 rate, I will jot down the names of some byegone 

 notabilities, and follow them by more modern ones. 

 First and foremost come Old Jock, Old Trap, and 

 Grove Nettle ; Belgrave Joe must not be forgotten, 

 for he is one of the pillars of the <( Stud Book " ; Mr. 

 Murchison's grand bitch Olive ; Mr. Luke Turner's 

 short-tailed Spice ; Mr. James Gibson's lovely bitch 

 Dorcas ; Mr. G. Booth's Tyrant, the white game 

 terrier; Mr. J. Hyde's Buffet; Mr. W. Gamon's 

 Chance, smothered in his box when going to win at 

 Birmingham ; Messrs. Clarke's Result, and Messrs. 

 Vicary's Vesuvienne ; as good a brace as the best 

 ever bred ; Mr. W. Sarsfield's little bitch Fussy ; 

 Mr. Rawdon Lee's Nimrod and Gripper ; Messrs. 

 Clarke's Rachel; Dr. Hazlehurst's Patch; Mr. F. 

 Sale's Hornet ; Mr. J. Fletcher's Rattler the 

 " dreaded"; Mr. P. Pilgrim's May; Mr. W. N. 

 Archer's Diamond; Mr. W. Cropper's Venture; 



