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few years later, includes a foxhound and a terrier, 

 the latter just the same kind as the strain of which 

 I now write. As Mr. Jacob Robson says, the 

 colours are mostly red, wheaten, or what I should 

 call a yellow, in varying shades ; others are pepper 

 and salt, more or less light or dark, the latter almost 

 approaching black ; white is usually found on the 

 chest, a white foot or two occasionally, less 

 frequently they have a white streak up the face ; 

 black and tan is not often found, and entirely black 

 and white and tan markings, as on a modern fox 

 terrier, are never found in the pure strain, and it has 

 been kept entirely pure now for fifty years or more, 

 whatever might have been the case earlier. 



Some of the terriers follow hounds regularly, and 

 are continually brought into use, not only amongst 

 the rocks and in rough ground of that kind, but in 

 equally or in more dangerous places wet drains or 

 moss holes, or l( waterfalls," as they are called in 

 Northumberland. A dog that goes in here may 

 have to swim underground and find his fox, which 

 is perhaps lying up in a side drain or earth quite 

 dry. There are numerous crossings and cuttings 

 in these peat moss drains, which are more or less, 

 as the case may be, natural or artificial. It is by 

 no means unusual for terriers to be lost therein, and 

 even when rescued to have afterwards died from the 



