146 Modern Dogs. 



From the strains of these two dogs have sprung 

 most of the modern so-called wire-haired terriers, 

 but, unfortunately, so many crosses have been made 

 with their smooth cousins, that there is little chance 

 of to-day finding the old blood pure and uncon- 

 taminated. 



There appears a semblance of strangeness that 

 the wire-haired terriers from Devonshire have not 

 been more used for show bench purposes, and by all 

 accounts some of them were as good in looks as 

 they had on many occasions proved in deeds. 

 Those owned by the Rev. John Russell acquired a 

 world-wide reputation, yet we look in vain for many 

 remnants of the strain in the Stud Books, and the 

 county of broad acres has once again distanced the 

 southern one in the race for money. But, although 

 the generous clerical sportsman occasionally con- 

 sented to judge terriers at some of the local shows 

 in the West, he was not much of a believer in such 

 exhibitions. So far as dogs, and horses too, were 

 concerned, with him it was " handsome is that hand- 

 some does," and so long as it did its work properly, 

 one short leg and three long ones was no eye-sore in 

 any terrier owned by the late Rev. John Russell. 



Some of this " Russell" blood still remains in the 

 West of England, Mr. C. G. Archer, of Trelaske,, 

 Cornwall, has had it for thirty-five years or more.. 



