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antagonist in the ring. Tartar, iylb. in weight, was a 

 pure white dog, excepting for a light patch of pale tan over 

 one eye, unusually compact in build a pocket Hercules in 

 fact, with a back as muscular and strong as is the neck of 

 a mighty Cumberland and Westmoreland wrestler. A little 

 wide in front was the old dog, but straighter perhaps on 

 the fore legs than Jock, and with better feet. The latter, 

 far the longer and more terrier-like in head, was beaten in 

 size of ears, their mode of carriage, and in neatness of hind- 

 quarters. Tartar was a peculiarly elegantly moulded dog 

 behind, notwithstanding the amount of muscle he showed, 

 and he stood neither too high on his legs nor the contrary. 

 I cannot just now call to mind any terrier of the present 

 generation like him in any respect. Possibly Richmond 

 Jack resembled him somewhat ; at any rate in shape of 

 body and sprightliness. Both Tartar and Jock had fair 

 coats, that of the former, the harder and smoother, and no 

 doubt he was much the gamer of the two. It is always the 

 fate of success to make enemies, and at the time Jock was 

 being shown so successfully, and later, I was repeatedly 

 told that he would not kill a rat, and that his going to 

 ground or doing the work of a fox terrier was altogether a 

 myth. Of this I cannot write from personal knowledge, but 

 tell the tale as it was told to me. Tartar's indomitable 

 gameness has never been gainsaid, and he was always fond 

 enough of a fight in the ring ; though I have seen terriers 

 furious in trying to get at an opponent when on the chain, 

 that would have been as eager to go the other way had the 

 collar been undone. Tartar's pedigree, as given in the first 

 volume of the Stud Book is open to great doubt, though it 

 is said he was bred by Mr. Stevenson, of Chester, about 

 1862 from Weaver's Viper out of Donville Poole's Touch. 



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