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I should say, from fifty to one hundred terriers, 

 chiefly smooths, with short, dense, and hard coats. 

 I do not recollect one of his over i61b. or many 

 much under 14.10., but occasionally there were some 

 under the latter weight. All were dead game, or if 

 they did not prove themselves such they were not 

 alive long after having had their trial. I never saw 

 a terrier amongst his lot with black or black and tan 

 markings, and it was not until many years after that 

 the black and tan marked ones began to crop up ; 

 all the smooth-coated were all white with few excep- 

 tions, which were marked with a brickdust kind of 

 tan patch on back, setting on of stern, or head and 

 ears. The colour was similar to that which is now 

 called the Belvoir tan ; they were perfectly compact 

 and well-made little animals, always on the qui vive, 

 and full of fire and go ; the ears of some were carried 

 erect, like a fox's, but the others are small (all thin 

 in texture), nicely shaped, and as well carried as 

 they are now, or rather should be, i.e., dropping 

 from the spring of the ear close to the skull, the 

 corner or point coming near to the eye, and not set 

 on wide, standing out from the head. The head 

 was much smaller compared with the terriers of the 

 present day, more rounded in skull and shorter in 

 muzzle, the eye was more rounded and prominent, 

 with a flesh or red coloured cere round it, evidently 



