Old Jock. 31 



I often imagine there must have been something peculiarly 

 attractive about these early-time fox terriers. They were 

 certainly handsome and smart, but neither Old Jock nor 

 Tartar, the two acknowledged progenitors of the present 

 stock, had a black and tan marked head to recommend 

 him. Moreover, their parents had the credit of being 

 somewhat common in their origin, and generally had been 

 looked after by the stable boy or by the second or third 

 whip. The huntsman himself was, as a rule, far too great 

 a swell to leave a hound for a dog, though perhaps the 

 master's little son when home from Eton or Harrow for 

 the mid-summer holidays might beg a terrier puppy, and by 

 bribes and coaxings obtain for it a corner in the scullery or 

 in an empty stall in the stable. As I have said, the progress 

 from the servant's hall to the drawing-room was rapid, and 

 has evidently proved extremely satisfactory to all concerned. 



At the Birmingham show already mentioned, Old Jock, 

 Old Trap, and at the following one Old Tartar, then entered 

 by Mr. H. J. Davenport (Warwickshire), formed a suitable 

 trio from which to found a nucleus to take the world by 

 storm, and the blood of one or other of them is to be found 

 in all the best strains of the present day, though the three 

 dogs themselves were so much different in appearance. 

 Shall I describe them here ? 



Jock was said to be bred by Jack Morgan, who, when the 

 dog was pupped sometime during 1859, was huntsman with 

 the Grove. I have also heard it stated that Jock was born 

 at the Quorn kennels. The Kennel Club Stud Book gives 

 the breeder as either Captain Percy Williams, who was then 

 master of the Rufford, or Jack Morgan ; but the uncertainty 

 of the month in which the terrier was born, and the little 

 thought given to terrier pedigrees at that time, make me 



