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companions, a team of deerhounds, resenting his British 

 bounce, killed him. Mr. Turner has had many better 

 terriers, including Patch, a lovely bitch, which, owing to 

 the confusion of names prior to the formation of the 

 Kennel Club Stud Book, often gets mixed up with others 

 of the same name, and thus the credit of her excellence 

 has, perhaps, become divided. Delta was another far above 

 the average ; so was Richmond Liqueur, though a com- 

 parative puppy when she made her debut at the Fylde, 

 Lancashire, Show, in July, 1887, where the best judges 

 pronounced her to be one of the most perfect terriers 

 seen for some time, notwithstanding the fact that her 

 tail, like that of Spice, was almost all cut off. Unfortu- 

 nately, this promising young bitch died before she could 

 make that mark likely to be hers. Richmond Jack was a cast 

 off from the Leicester kennels, but some judges liked him ; I 

 did not, excepting as an ordinary little terrier for a com- 

 panion. His head was quite incorrect in shape. 



If the Leicester Kennels have to survive through an 

 individual, the dog to whom that honour will be due is 

 the late Belgrave Joe. Belgrave Joe was much of the 

 stamp of rare old Chance, but a better terrier in every 

 particular, though he never came on to the show bench, 

 because in his early years one of his ears was supposed to 

 have been tampered with. But Joe's life at Richmond House 

 was none the less happy because of the stain, and he lived 

 there until old age carried him off to happy ratting grounds 

 at the ripe old age of twenty years. I fancy through this 

 dog comes most of the Belvoir blood so many persons 

 value at the present time, for he was by Belvoir Joe out of 

 White Vic, by Branson's Tartar his Vic. Tartar was by 

 Mr. Moore's (Appleby Hall) Ruler, from the Donnington 



