36 The Fox Terrier. 



I think there is little doubt that he was a cross-bred dog, 

 for, he was shown at Birmingham in 1863 pedigreeless, and 

 had those who looked after him cared to determine his 

 parentage (or if they possessed it to publish it), they could 

 easily have done so at that time and not waited until the 

 dog had gained a reputation. 



Alas! for blue-blood and terriers ; our remaining support 

 of the past generation likewise possesses but a doubtful 

 parentage. There has always been a hesitancy about this, 

 and so Old Trap's pedigree has been the source of per- 

 petual correspondence, poor old dog! Here is what the 

 Kennel Club's not always correct volume says of him. 

 " Mr. J. H. D. Bayly, already mentioned, purchased him of 

 Mr. Cockayne, then kennel man to the Oakley Hounds, 

 and later at the Tickham kennels. Mr. Cockayne bought 

 him from a groom of Mr. Isted's, well known in the 

 Pytchley Hunt." Mr. Luke Turner, one of our very oldest 

 admirers of the fox terrier, believes Trap's sire was a dog 

 called Tip, owned by Mr. Hitchcock, a miller in Leicester. 

 This dog bore a reputation for extraordinary gameness, 

 and was the favourite sire used by all the sporting 

 characters in the district. The coachman of Col. Ark- 

 wright, then Master of the Oakley, put a bitch to this 

 dog Tip, and the result of the alliance was Trap. 



I have already proved, I think satisfactorily, that the 

 original fox terrier was black and tan, with possibly a little 

 white on his chest and feet; but, so far as Trap was 

 concerned, there has always been a belief that either his 

 sire or dam was a black and tan terrier pure and simple. 

 Mr. J. A. Doyle states that Mr. Bayly himself told him such 

 was the case. On the contrary, the late Rev. T. O'Grady 

 informed the writer that Trap's dam was a heavily marked 



