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nately, this bitch was ill-natured, and was not kept 

 long. Several of her sisters, brothers, and cousins 

 were celebrities in their various stations of life. They 

 could kill a fox or foulmart, and were what is known 

 now as being " dead game." These were longish- 

 coated dogs, generally in colour fawn, or fawn tinged 

 with brown, varying from i4lb. to 2olb. in weight; 

 they had small drop ears, which sometimes hung 

 down at the sides of the cheeks, and possessed a 

 certain amount of otter-hound character. Rather 

 more terrier-like was a strain once kept by the 

 gunpowder makers at Elterwater, in the English 

 lake district, where there was a pack of otter hounds. 

 The men here living almost at the foot of the 

 lake mountains, had ample opportunity to try their 

 dogs with the mountain foxes, marts, and stoats, 

 which in past days were not uncommon. One of 

 the coopers possessed a little, pale red bitch called 

 Worry, not more than i4lb. in weight, and worth 

 her weight in gold, so everybody said. That she 

 was a good one could not be doubted ; a five- 

 pound note was more than once refused for her, and 

 her owner got from fifteen to twenty shillings each 

 for her puppies. In those times half-a-crown was a 

 common price for a four weeks old puppy, and less 

 than a sovereign for a broken dog. Thus Worry's 

 reputation was a great one, and when I saw her 



