76 The Fox Terrier. 



was to my mind the best fox terrier I ever saw. Regent 

 was another excellent dog in the Nottingham kennels, and 

 that his constitution was of the best may be inferred from 

 the fact that in 1894, when twelve years of age, he became 

 the sire of a strong and healthy lot of puppies. He died 

 at the same time as Result. Raffle, Reckon, and First 

 Flight were also far above the average. The bitches 

 from the same strain were often lighter in bone than the 

 dogs, and not so characteristic. Rachel, already alluded 

 to, was a lovely terrier, and the best of her sex the Messrs. 

 Clarke ever bred. Money tempted them to send her to 

 America, though it is said that at the same time an even 

 more liberal offer for Result did not lead to a sale. 

 Other specially good bitches of their' s were Radiance, 

 Recherche, Rosemary, Richmond Nettle, and Raillery. 

 It seems somewhat strange that latterly Messrs. Clarke 

 have not produced any terrier of great excellence, 

 though they continue to breed from both dogs and 

 bitches of pretty much the same strain and with which 

 they were so successful half a dozen years or more 

 ago. This, of course, goes to prove to how great an 

 extent " luck " is connected with dog breeding. 



The late Mr. Fred Burbidge, once captain of the Surrey 

 county team of cricketers, in the earlier part of his 

 career as an exhibitor, owed his success more to judicious 

 purchases than otherwise, and he then owned some very 

 good terriers, including Buff, Nimrod, Dorcas, and Bloom. 

 From about 1884 to his death, which occurred in 1892, 

 Mr. Burbidge proved particularly successful on the bench 

 with dogs of his own breeding, which were reared in a 

 lovely cherry tree country not far from Watford, Herts. ; and, 

 during at any rate a portion of that period, he displayed 



