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to death by hanging to the nearest tree. However, 

 he survived to be an ornament to the show bench. 

 These wire-haired terriers were generally game, and 

 one called Ajax, to which I had given sundry prizes 

 in the North of England, I afterwards met at the 

 Sherbourne Hound Show, when exhibited under the 

 name of Lynx, by Moss, Lord Portman's huntsman ; 

 he took premier honours for terriers that had run 

 with hounds. On inquiry I learned that he was as 

 good at driving a fox out of his earth as need be 

 desired. 



During the past two years I do not think wire- 

 haired fox terriers have made much, if any, headway ; 

 rather I fancy they have retrograded. Many of the 

 old exhibitors and breeders of them have dropped 

 out of the show ranks ; Mr. Percy Reid, Mr. 

 Lindsay Hogg, Mr. S. E. Shirley, Mr. Mark Wood, 

 Mr. Harding Cox, Mr. F. H. Field, Mr. Colmore, 

 and Mr. Carrick to wit. Nor have their places yet 

 been occupied. Mr. Clear gives, as already stated, 

 his kennels to the wire-haired fox terriers, and 

 so does Mr. C. W. Wharton, and in Devonshire 

 Mr. A. Damarell does likewise ; Mr. Rotherham 

 Cecil, at Dronfield, near Sheffield, had for a short 

 time a number of good terriers ; at Beverley Mr. 

 E. Welburn at times turns out some dogs of more 

 than usual excellence, and in the Darlington and 



