56 The Fox Terrier. 



strain has not, however, been worked to all the advantage 

 it might have been ; Mr. Sarsfield's business engagements 

 prevented him giving more than a passing attention to 

 improving our terriers, and Mr. Procter gained greater 

 notoriety from his strain of Cochin China fowls. Mr. 

 Procter, however, still keeps a terrier or two as com- 

 panions, and shows them successfully occasionally ; such 

 as he has, possess more or less of the Fussy blood, and 

 through her sire, Mr. Muster's Ragman, go back to Old 

 Trap, as so many of our best strains do. 



Mr. J. Holmes, jun.'s (Beverley) Gadfly, by Vassal, a son 

 of Jock and Grove Nettle, another much admired terrier 

 in his day, especially for the reputation he bore for 

 gameness, could not get high up in the prize list at Curzon 

 Hall ; still groups of sporting men were usually round his 

 number, as was the case with Mr. F. Sale's Hornet much 

 the better of the two and he was a son of Grove Nettle. 

 The same exhibitor also owned an animal of unusual 

 excellence in Myrtle, by his Old Sam, a son of Tyrant, out 

 of a bitch called Jenny, by Old Jock. Mr. Luke Turner 

 bred Myrtle, who at five years old was good enough to 

 win the challenge prize at Birmingham. She had rather 

 large ears, a weakish jaw, and possessed neither the rough 

 wear and tear appearance nor character a hunting man 

 likes to see in his terrier. 



One of the best all-round fox terriers about now (1873, 

 or a little later), was the lovely little bitch Lille, so long 

 and successfully shown by Mr. Shepherd, of Beverley. 

 She looked like a daughter of Tyrant's, but was by Tartar 

 Patch, out of Fell's Spot, all good-bred ones in their 

 way, with nothing like the quality possessed by their illus- 

 trious descendent. Handsome as Lille was, stronger bone 



