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Tricksey, and laying claim to a pedigree quite as long as 

 the haughty haberdasher does when he retires from business 

 and becomes a county family celebrity ; and with a dog 

 named Nugget, brindled marked and the facsimile of Tyke. 

 Dew claws " doubly distilled/' brindle marks, upon other- 

 wise ugly creatures were produced from them, until I came 

 to the conclusion that to breed fox terriers with any 

 certainty you must have blood thoroughly reliable. I 

 gave a heavily marked puppy away which had been 

 produced from another cross I obtained by the 

 purchase of Mac II., for his dam, Venom, I had always 

 admired, indeed, I almost purchased her from her breeder, 

 Mr. F. Chaplin, so long ago as 1869. Then George 

 Dickenson, who came from Northumberland, as the head 

 gamekeeper at Levens Hall, Westmorland, had sent down 

 to him a bitch from the Tynedale, the lemon marked terrier 

 already described, which he put to the dark coloured puppy 

 mentioned above, bred from Crack and Mabel, a daughter 

 of Old Riot. A pup resulted, which was sold when a month 

 old for half a crown ! This youngster blossomed into Nellie, 

 as good a bitch as ever ran on four legs, though a big one 

 for modern fancy, and the dam of Nimrod (undoubtedly the 

 best puppy of his year), Gripper, and others I could mention. 

 Riot bred a whole host of good ones, including the afore- 

 said Mabel, whose temper outside her own family was so 

 detestable that she could not be shown. I had her entered 

 at one show, but she did nothing but sulk, kept her tail 

 between her legs in the ring, got v. h. c., quite as much as 

 she deserved under the circumstances, and concluded her 

 day out by biting three different people. There was no 

 better bitch in her day, and years afterwards she died far 

 away in Ireland in the bosom of the same family where she 



