14 The Fox Terrier. 



four dogs a clever man could even then have produced a 

 fair specimen of the modern fox terrier. Although so 

 drawn as above, James, no doubt, preferred hunting to 

 hawking, and could not always have been the elaborately 

 dressed creature as he appears in the engraving mentioned, 

 for there is a story told that whilst with the hounds at Bury 

 St. Edmunds, the Sovereign's attention was attracted by the 

 gaudy apparel worn by one of the hunters. " Who is 

 that?" said the king. "Sire/ 1 was the answer " that man 

 is named Lamb." " Ahem," replied the royal joker, "his 

 name maybe Lamb, and an appropriate one it be, for surely 

 he has gotten a fleece upon his back." 



With the commencement of the present century and 

 towards the close of the last one, more was written about 

 terriers, and, as useful little dogs, they were gradually 

 becoming appreciated. Beckford alludes to black or white 

 terriers, and from these two varieties white ones with 

 black marks could easily be produced. The same author 

 mentions a strain of terriers so like a fox in colour that 

 awkward people frequently mistake the one for the other, 

 and proceeds to say that " If you prefer Terriers to run 

 with the pack, large ones at times are extremely useful, but 

 in an earth they do little good, as they cannot always get 

 up to their fox." 



Between the years 1800 and 1805 an unusually large 

 number of sporting books and works on hunting and dogs 

 were published, all of which dealt more or less with terriers. 

 "The Sporting Dictionary," 1803, says, "Terriers of even 

 the best blood are now bred of all colours red, black with 

 tan faces, flanks, feet, and legs ; brindled, sandy, some few 

 brown pied, white pied, and pure white ; as well as one 

 sort of each colour rough and wire-haired, the other soft 



