The Wire-haired Fox Terrier. 137 



told me that even in Nottingham, supposed to be 

 the home of the smooth variety, the " wire-hairs " 

 were common enough when he was a boy forty-five 

 years ago. And how visions of his early sporting 

 days rushed before him when he told me of a terrier 

 he had owned with an extraordinarily long head, 

 which came from the Quorn when Sir Richard 

 Sutton was the master. This dog was in every 

 sense a pattern of the best we see to-day, i81b. 

 weight, hard coated, strong-jawed, possessing at 

 the same time the " ferocity of the tiger" when 

 " cats " were about, and " the gentleness of the 

 dove " in the presence of his genial owner. Mr. 

 C. M. Browne (" Robin Hood") believed that a 

 majority of the Midland counties strains of wire- 

 haired terriers sprang from this dog, which became 

 the property of Mr. T. Wootton, who certainly had 

 some very good ones about twenty years later. 



No further proof of the gameness of the modern 

 wire-haired terrier need be adduced than was 

 described in the columns of the Field not long ago, 

 in connection with the local otter hounds, which were 

 hunting the River Lune, near Hornby. An otter had 

 been marked in a tile drain, an ordinary drain pipe 

 indeed, and to drive him one of the hunt's terriers 

 went to ground. There was no side drain to allow 

 him to get behind the otter, and of course to draw 



