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couple of hundred puppies to select from annually a 

 formidable undertaking, no doubt. 



So there is little difficulty in forming a strain of terriers, 

 and only professional arrangements caused me to give up 

 " dogs " and scatter the results of my few years' expe- 

 rience broadcast on the world. Some are knocking about 

 this country still, others are in Russia and France, some 

 even further away, in the Antipodes and in various parts 

 of America, and, properly entered and taken care of, they 

 will be sure to do their duty. 



With the establishment of the Kennel Club in 1874, and 

 of the Fox Terrier Club two years later, pedigrees came to 

 be more reliable, new faces were seen bringing their terriers 

 into the ring, and fresh strains came to be produced. Some 

 of the old-fashioned blood which Mr. W. Allison and his 

 brother-in-law, Mr. T. H. Scott (who contributed various 

 articles about terriers to the newspapers under the nom de 

 plume of " Peeping Tom"), introduced from Yorkshire, 

 did not nick well with other strains, though with Old Jester, 

 Jester II. (whose dam was Lord Middleton's Vic, by Old 

 Tartar Vic, of the Grove and Lord Middleton's strain), 

 and a big bitch called Frantic, the relatives were fairly 

 successful. Possibly the two best terriers from this York- 

 shire kennel were Fan (already mentioned) and X. L. The 

 latter had at one time credentials to pose as one of the 

 best of her day, and so good did some judges consider her, 

 that she was purchased by them from Mr. Allison at one of 

 the Darlington shows for about ioo/. Later, shown by 

 Mr. S. Mendal, Manchester, she proved a great winner at 

 a period of our history when favouritism in the ring now 

 and then ruled the roast. X.L. (sister to Frantic), a tan- 

 headed bitch, was born in 1870 ; her breeder's name is not 



