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fortunately, excitement with hounds, and a " mark" 

 at some holt, repeatedly brought on a fit, which 

 quite spoiled the pleasure of seeing her good work. 

 Amongst other notable terriers was one of my own 

 earliest possessions, that was peculiar only so in 

 appearance. He was a chesnut in colour, darker 

 on the back, and shading down to tan on the legs 

 and sides ; his nose, too, was of the same hue, and 

 his eyes formed an exact match. Handsomeness 

 was not his characteristic. Then we called him a 

 Scotch terrier, now his coat would have been plucked 

 to make him eligible for the Welsh terrier class. His 

 accomplishments were many, for, in addition to 

 leaping through hoops, sitting up, and walking on 

 his hind legs, he could retrieve fur and feather well 

 and quickly. In the field, either above or under 

 ground, he would do all required of a terrier, and, as 

 a rat hunter at the water's edge, he had few 

 superiors ; and a big, strong rat in the river or canal 

 affords sport well, certainly of a higher class than 

 pigeon shooting and rabbit coursing with fox terriers. 

 A little hard-coated, dirty- coloured fawn bitch, 

 about i61b. weight, of the common strain the writer 

 possessed, showed a wonderful nose (we broke them 

 to trail hunting when about six months old), and at 

 seven she would run the scent of a rabbit skin a 

 couple of miles and beat all competitors. Unfortu- 



