74 The Fox Terrier. 



given in the first volume of the Stud Book, but Mr. W. 

 Allison bred her through a bitch named Nettle being mated 

 to his favourite Jester, who was from Cottingham Nettle. 

 The Cotswold favourite was also, about this time, sire of 

 another good terrier, Mr. Arrowsmith's Satire, a first-rate 

 bitch even amongst first-raters. Both Mr. Allison (who was 

 very much interested in race-horses as the managing 

 director of the Cobham Stud Company, later a journalist 

 on one of our sporting dailies, and at present secretary to 

 the National Sporting League) and Mr. Scott were keen 

 sportsmen ; they knew a terrier when they saw one, wrote 

 nicely to the newspapers, and soon became authorities on 

 fox terriers, and judges whenever they were asked to 

 officiate. 



Fox terriers were running about the streets of Notting- 

 ham forty years ago. I have mentioned that Mr. T. 

 Wootton had them, and Mr. White, of Sherwood Rise, 

 always kept several smart ones. Strangely, from the same 

 old town another and a later strain has reached us. The 

 Messrs. Clarke there established a kennel of their own, which 

 in many instances presented quite distinctive features. This 

 result was achieved by a peculiar, if not altogether an unusual 

 course of in-breeding, a plan which, if properly carried out, 

 has invariably led to improved " personal " appearance in 

 dogs, pigs, horses, and cattle. 



The Messrs. Clarke's chief success was when they bred 

 between Brockenhurst Rally and Jess, the latter by Grip 

 Hazlehurst's Patch, and the former by Brockenhurst Joe 

 Moss II., though the Messrs. Clarke tell me that, strangely 

 enough, the blood of one of the puppies with which they 

 commenced in 1871, a grand-daughter of Rival, still runs 

 through some of their terriers, and at one time they could 



