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Goodall, George Beers, with Frank, his son, were never 

 happy unless they had some of the gamest of the game well 

 within call when required, after a good stout fox had 

 dodged the stopped earths and gone to ground. 



The Burton, Lincolnshire, must not be overlooked, for 

 at the time Dick Burton was first whip there, when 

 Lord Henry Bentinck hunted them himself, considerable 

 care was bestowed upon the terriers, a strain of which 

 the hunt possessed, mostly white-bodied dogs with lemon 

 markings on the head. There is an oil painting still 

 in the possession of the Burton family, a portrait of 

 Dick with some of his favourite hounds and terriers. 

 This must have been painted about sixty years ago. 

 When Burton retired into private life he took some of these 

 terriers with him, and crossed them with a black and tan 

 dog belonging to Mr. Charles Clarke, Scopwick, the well- 

 known breeder of Lincoln sheep. This was in reality a 

 black and tan fox terrier not a Manchester terrier 

 possibly a dog something after the stamp of that engraved 

 and described earlier in the volume the fox terrier of 1806. 

 From this cross Dick Burton produced black and tan 

 headed dogs, others with marks on the body, and he 

 claimed to be the first individual to introduce these hand- 

 somely coloured terriers to the public. This is an 

 interesting piece of history which I believe has hitherto 

 failed to find its way into print, and there is no reason why 

 the claim should not be allowed, although it is possible that 

 at the same time other admirers of the fox terrier were 

 bringing about similar results through a different cross. 

 In addition to these less known kennels, there were others 

 whose reputation was world-wide rather than local, including 

 the Grove, the Belvoir, the Albrighton, the Atherton, the 

 Duke of Rutland's, and the Brocklesby. 



