CHAPTER III. 



MORE NOTABILITIES EAR-DROPPING AND OTHER MAL- 

 PRACTICES FORMING A KENNEL THE Fox TERRIER 

 CLUB SOME MODERN KENNELS THE BEST TERRIERS 

 MEASUREMENTS. 



|F course, there were a few other good terriers 

 appearing about the earlier shows in addition to 

 those already mentioned, but such bear sorry 

 reputations to-day, nor have they done much in the way 

 of improving the family generally. Rival was a terrier- 

 like dog of the Jock stamp, but these varmint-looking 

 fellows soon had, as it were, their noses put out of joint 

 by the introduction of some smarter, handsomer, and 

 gayer little creatures, wherever they came from, and there 

 was no wonder that the huntsmen called such dogs, as 

 those of which the beautiful Trimmer formed a fair 

 specimen, toys. Here was another "pillar 11 with the 

 name of the breeder unknown, though said to be sired 

 by some unknown quantity of a dog called Rap, his dam 

 being the Rev. T. O'Grady's Vic. Trimmer, a smart, 

 thin-coated little dog, about I4lb. weight, with a small, 



