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undue exertion, the lack of air, and the general 

 unhealthiness of being some hours underground in 

 a peat bog. And this though the Border terrier 

 has an excellent constitution. If he had not he 

 would never have survived amongst the hardy 

 northern sportsmen, who consider him the best of 

 all the terriers so far as work is concerned. He 

 can go where a Dandie Dinmont cannot follow him, 

 or a Scottish terrier either, and, quite as game 

 as the Bedlington, he is not nearly so quarrel- 

 some. 



In the chapter on fox terriers allusion was made 

 to a strain once owned by the late Mr. Donville 

 Poole at Maybury Hall, Shropshire, and which 

 had more than a local notoriety for gameness. 

 It had been said of them that they had attacked 

 and worried a postman. However, these dogs were 

 not fox terriers as we know the variety now ; what 

 they were, and how game they were, the following 

 contribution from the late Mr. S. W. Smith so 

 great an authority on terriers in his day will tell. 

 The article first appeared in one of the weekly 

 papers devoted to dogs and poultry, but before his 

 death Mr. Smith kindly gave me permission to use 

 it as I like. He wrote : 



" The Squire, as he was called, seldom left his 

 seat, but spent his money in the town. He kept, 



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