130 Modern Dogs. 



Little additional is there now to be said as to the 

 smooth fox terrier, and my general experience of 

 him as a dog is, that properly trained and entered 

 he cannot yet be beaten. Of course, there are soft- 

 hearted fox terriers as there are pointers and setters 

 that may be gun-shy, but such are as much the 

 exception in one case as the other. That he is so 

 little used in actual fox hunting is a matter to 

 deplore. Some time ago, when reading that volume 

 of the Badminton Library which deals with hunting, 

 I was mightily surprised to see so little allusion to 

 terriers. Yet the writer, the Duke of Beaufort, is a 

 hunting man, one who loves to hear his hounds 

 singing in their kennels at night, and is never so 

 happy as when the favourite flowers of his pack are 

 making it warm for bold reynard across the meadows 

 of the Midlands. Terriers are only mentioned three 

 times throughout the volume in one place where 

 they are recommended as assistants to harriers when 

 trying along a hedgerow, again, as likely to be useful 

 to the earthstopper, and on a third occasion as 

 requisites for otter hunting. This neglect notwith- 

 standing, a good fox terrier can still be useful in 

 driving a fox from a drain, and our modern strains 

 might do their duty as well as the best that ever 

 ran between John o'Groats and Land's End. When 

 once properly entered, a fox terrier never seems 



