82 The Fox Terrier. 



like in colour round the eyes. Her ears are liver or brown 

 in colour, and they, with her red-rimmed eyes, mar her 

 expression considerably. Still, as being at any rate the 

 best bitch of the year, she is reproduced in company with 

 her kennel companion D'Orsay. 



Mr. E. M. Southwell (Shropshire), a painstaking and 

 careful promoter of the fox terrier's excellence, has from 

 time to time introduced many excellent faces. The wall- 

 eyed bitch Sutton Viola was a great favourite of mine ; so 

 was old Shovel, notwithstanding his bad temper; whilst the 

 bitch Surety is about as neat a one as we have seen for 

 some time, and, as I anticipated in the first edition of this 

 volume, has not been long in working her way into the 

 winners' classes. Another good dog of Mr. Southwell's is 

 Success, which has lately been purchased by Mr. J. A. 

 Whitaker. 



Undoubtedly one of our oldest admirers of the fox 

 terrier, and one of our best all-round judges, is Mr. G. 

 Raper, a son of the late Tom Raper, who behind the slips 

 with a couple of greyhounds in them, has had no superior. 

 At Wincobank, near Sheffield, Mr. Raper has a valuable 

 kennel of terriers, as well as of other dogs, but earlier in 

 his career he gave pretty much of his attention to the fox 

 terrier. Thus he has had many of the best through his 

 hands, and in Raby Tyrant and Richmond Olive he owned 

 a brace of terriers of the highest class ; indeed, Olive was 

 the bitch of her year. However, both were ultimately sold 

 to go to America, the former for ioo/., the latter for double 

 that sum. Raby Reckon and Raby Mixer have always 

 been in the leading rank at our big shows. Delta 

 (afterwards Richmond Delta), claimed by Mr. Raper at 

 Buxton show in 1884 for ioo/., and afterwards put up to 



