144 The Fox Terrier. 



pepper and salt, and of various shades in red and fawn and 

 yellow, as well as of the present time orthodox white 

 and marked with fawn, or black and tan. Modern fancy 

 has developed the black and tan into a new variety, 

 whilst the others, of whole colour, equally useful in every 

 way, have gone to the wall. In various districts of North 

 Durham and Yorkshire the wire-haired terriers appear to 

 have been produced in greatest numbers, but Devonshire 

 also had them in the form they were wont to be used by 

 the Rev. John Russell, a name so familiar to every sports- 

 man throughout the many countries where the English 

 language is spoken. The late and much respected " Robin 

 Hood," so long the Field's well-known coursing correspon- 

 dent, told me that even in Nottingham, supposed to be the 

 home of the smooth variety, the " wire-hairs " were common 

 enough forty-five or more years ago. And how visions of 

 his early sporting dogs rushed before him when he told me 

 of a terrier he had owned with an extraordinarily long head, 

 which came from the Quorn when Sir Richard Sutton was 

 the master. This dog, he said, was in every sense a 

 pattern of the best we see to-day, i81b. weight, hard 

 coated, strong-jawed, possessing at the same time the 

 " ferocity of the tiger " when " cats " were about, and 

 " the gentleness of the dove " in the presence of his genial 

 owner. Mr. C. M. Browne (" Robin Hood ") was inclined 

 to believe that a majority of the Midland counties strains 

 of wire-haired terriers sprang from this dog, which, if 

 his recollection did not fail him, became the property of 

 Mr. T. Wootton, who certainly had some very good ones 

 about twenty years later, though that they were all as 

 game as one would have wished may be doubted by the 

 following story : 



