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dog of a different stamp, smooth-coated, and dark 

 brown or liver-coloured ; his head, ears, and feet 

 were so good that, white and hound-marked, his 

 figure at the Fox Terrier Club's show would have 

 attracted attention. As good in some respects as 

 Jack, Tinker was quarrelsome underground, where 

 he has repeatedly fought and killed a strange dog ; 

 and querulousness is a great fault in any terrier. 

 A snap at a hound in a kennel may cause a com- 

 motion likely to prove fatal, and a dog ill-natured 

 with his own species is not always so game to 

 the core as one which keeps his ferocity in check 

 until it be required against the enemy of his race. 



In North Yorkshire there is still to be found a 

 similar terrier. The southern counties, too, have 

 always had some of them, and " Devonian," writing 

 to the Field in June, 1885, draws attention thereto. 

 The Earl of Macclesfield had a strain of black and 

 tan hard-haired terriers in Warwickshire. Another 

 family of the same type was to be found in Hertford- 

 shire; and " Badger," in the columns of the Field has 

 told us of Squire Jenny's Monk, whose excellences 

 were often shown after a run with his master's 

 foxhounds in Suffolk. Various engravings and 

 paintings to be seen in old magazines, sporting 

 works, and hanging on the walls of our country 

 mansions likewise afford proof that a black and tan 



