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worried underground. The mother was allowed to escape, 

 but her three other cubs were taken and put to the terrier 

 which had killed the first brace. The bitch took kindly 

 enough to the little things, and suckled and attended them 

 equally as well as her own offspring, which had been born 

 five weeks previously to the time she adopted her foster 

 children. 



The " Sportsman's Cabinet," published in two volumes in 

 1803-4, two years after the first volume of Daniel's " Rural 

 Sports " appeared, contains an engraving by Scott from a 

 spirited painting by Reinagle. Here we have three terriers, 

 one of which is white, with marks on his head and a patch 

 at the set on of stern. This is a wire-haired dog, with a 

 docked tail and erect ears, showing traces of a bull-terrier 

 cross from the shape of the skull and in his general 

 character. Another, evidently a white dog, is disappearing 

 from sight in an earth, whilst the third appears to be a 

 dark coloured dog, with a broad white collar and white 

 marks on his muzzle ; his ears are likewise erect. All will 

 pass muster as fox terriers, and if a little wide in chest for 

 modern fancy and prevailing fashion they are strong-jawed 

 and appear eager for the fray. 



The writer in the " Sportsman's Cabinet" (two hand- 

 some volumes, originally published at seven guineas), after 

 alluding to the several strains of terriers, says : " The 

 genuine and lesser breed of terrier is still preserved 

 uncontaminate amongst the superior order of sportsmen, 

 and constantly employed in a business in which his name, 

 his size, his fortitude, persevering strength, and invincible 

 ardour, all become so characteristically and truly sub- 

 servient, that he may justly be said 'to labour cheerfully 

 in his vocation ; ' this is in his emulous and exulting 



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