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for her) in July, 1892, by Rowton Warrant from Lyons 

 Nettle, she has a black and tan head which is of nice 

 character in its expression, and she has good, well-sprung 

 ribs, and in front has not that stilty narrowness and upright 

 shoulders so many so-called " good " modern terriers 

 possess. Her faults are a badly set on stern and plain 

 hind quarters, which are more apparent in the ring than 

 when she is amongst the rabbits and rats. First shown at 

 Cambridge in February, 1893, she won two leading prizes, 

 successes which were added to later on, and at the Fox 

 Terrier Show at Wolverhampton in November she took 

 6o/. in prizes. Up to the end of October, 1894, 

 Lyons Sting had appeared at fourteen shows, and in 

 twenty-nine classes, in which she secured twenty-six first 

 prizes, two seconds, and one third, valued at I44/. js. 4^., 

 this not including five cups and four medals. These figures 

 are interesting as evidence of what a fox terrier may do 

 on the show bench in the way of earning its own living. 

 At home Sting is a game and rather quarrelsome bitch ; on 

 the show bench and in the ring she is shy and reserved. 



A far greater number of fox terriers are bred now than 

 was the case a quarter of a century ago ; indeed, when one 

 goes carefully through the monthly registrations made at 

 the Kennel Club and published periodically in the official 

 gazette, the figures appear to be almost astounding. 



The registration fee is one shilling, but it is not the 

 custom to name a dog of any kind until it is fairly well 

 grown and appears likely to turn out good enough to keep ; 

 so I judge that a fair average to take will be, say, one in 

 four born comes to be named and entered at the Kennel 

 Club. From 1880 to the middle of 1894, over 21,000 fox 

 terriers were registered at Cleveland-row, and assuming, 



