364 Modern Dogs. 



There is or was no particular range or locality for 

 these working terriers ; they extended from Northum- 

 berland in the north, to Devonshire in the west, and 

 were to be met with in almost every intermediate 

 county. 



Away in Devonshire the Rev. John Russell 

 possessed some almost entirely white, hard-jacketed 

 little fellows, whose good qualities are not yet for- 

 gotten. Then in far distant Yorkshire we had 

 another terrier, equally game and better looking, 

 and from which has sprung the rough-coated fox 

 terrier now so numerous at our leading dog shows. 

 Wherever hunting the fox, the badger, or the otter 

 was followed these good terriers were found, and 

 perhaps, with the two exceptions named and a few 

 others, such were black and tan, yellow or red of 

 various shades, or pepper and salt. Many of them 

 had some white on their breasts, a white foot or 

 two, and a dash of the same between the black 

 nose and the dark, piercing little eyes was not 

 uncommon. Such dogs varied in size, but were 

 usually less than 2olb. in weight, and if well trained 

 and entered, proved admirable hands at destroying 

 vermin. Some of them were fawn or red, others 

 pepper and salt. Old Will Norris, for fifty years 

 or more a noted earth-stopper connected with the 

 East Kent hounds, had a terrier which, to judge 



