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where great pains have been taken to individualise 

 the game and interesting little dogs during the past 

 twenty years. He first commenced his strain with 

 a little short-legged terrier purchased from Patrick, 

 stud groom to the old Surrey Foxhounds, and 

 a very game wire-haired bitch, showing a little 

 bulldog blood in her face. She was bred to a son 

 of old champion Tyrant, a small dog and very game, 

 as most of this grand old dog's stock were. Mr. 

 Cowley proceeds, " but perhaps a bitch called Sting, 

 bred in Cornwall, by a fox terrier out of alow-legged, 

 yellow, wire-haired bitch, much of the shape and 

 form of the modern Scottish terrier, did more than 

 any other dog I ever owned to get me the stamp 

 that I particularly fancy. Through her have come 

 all my best, including Viper, the best of all [the 

 white dog to the left in the group of terriers at 

 the commencement of this chapter] ; Sting was his 



gr- g r - g r - g r - dam -" 



There is a strain of terrier much talked about of 

 late known as the Sealy Ham, so called from the 

 seat near Haverfordwest of the Edwardes', whose 

 family it is said, have had the strain for well on to a 

 hundred years. This is another short-legged, long- 

 bodied terrier, with certain characteristics of the 

 fox terrier. He has a hard, wiry, weather-resisting 

 coat ; is mostly white, with black or brown, or brown 



