66 The Fox Terrier. 



chance of his avenging his defeat. He, however, left behind 

 him a son, in Mac II., with whom the writer was fortunate 

 enough to win the cup at Birmingham in 1871, the open 

 dog class being, perhaps, the finest that had, up to that 

 time, ever been brought together. Hornet, another good 

 dog, and a daughter of Grove Nettle, was second in that 

 year. Mac. II. was all that a terrier should be, a game and 

 gentlemanly dog, and why he did not go to ground after 

 fox and otter was for the very same reason that the coster- 

 monger now calling " oysters, alive ! all alive oh ! " does 

 not do so in German because his education had been 

 neglected. 



The Hon. T. W. Fitzwilliam bred Tyke, a dog that won 

 an unusual number of prizes, and who with Rattler, following 

 a year or two later, takes us right down to the present 

 generation of terriers. Tyke was by Tartar from a bitch by 

 Old Jock ; a lowish set dog, with extra strong back ; of a 

 nice size, about lylb., very powerful, but with a brindle 

 mark on one cheek. He was pupped in 1869, changing 

 hands several times at small sums (a good terrier was now 

 worth ioo/. or more), until Mr. F. J. Astbury, of Prestwich, 

 near Manchester, purchased him, and showed him over all 

 the country. Dr. Hazlehurst had Turk and Mr. A. C. 

 Bradbury Trumps about this time ; the latter a leggy dog 

 rather, with a richly marked head, and bearing a character 

 for gameness second to none. Good as he was, he, like 

 Old Turk, was but a second-rater compared with the lions 

 of his day, though in " blue blood " equal to the highest in 

 the land. Mr. J. H. Shore's Viper, another son of Tartar, 

 deserves a line to be written as to his excellence ; so does 

 that sterling bitch Trinket, whose only fault was her plum- 

 coloured nose. Her history proved sad, for she was stolen, 



