146 The Fox Terrier. 



showed courage and gameness in many ways. Then it was 

 missing for many hours, and one day unusual sounds under- 

 neath the stable floor led to a suspicion that Jack was there. 

 In due course the floor was taken up, and from a pipe drain 

 underneath, the terrier was dragged, and a huge cat lay 

 worried and dead by his side. This was a I3lb. terrier, but 

 he was too hard bitten and ferocious for ordinary work. 



No further proof of the gameness of the modern wire- 

 haired terrier need be adduced than was described in the 

 columns of the Field three years ago, in connection with 

 the Kendal otter hounds, which were hunting the river Lune, 

 near Hornby. An otter had been marked in a tile drain, 

 an ordinary drain pipe indeed, and to drive him, one of the 

 hunt's terriers went to ground. There was no side drain 

 to allow him to get behind the otter, and of course to draw 

 master Lutra, badger fashion, was impossible. However, 

 in the end the otter was, if not actually drawn, fairly driven 

 out of his stronghold, the plucky little terrier having actually 

 fought his way underneath or over his enemy, and, when 

 once behind him, made the drain so uncomfortable, that 

 the rough-and-ready notice of ejectment was acted upon. 

 A fine otter dashed out of the drain's mouth, followed 

 immediately by Turk, sadly bitten and bedraggled, but by 

 no means seriously injured. This terrier, though the 

 huntsman could give him no pedigree, was in appearance 

 of fashionable blood a good-looking little fellow, about 

 i5lb. in weight, and handsome enough to win a prize on 

 the show bench, which he has done. Bobby Troughton, 

 who had hunted the Kendal Otter Hounds for a dozen 

 years, said this dog Turk was the gamest and hardest terrier 

 he ever possessed surely a glowing testimonial for a 

 modern show animal. * ' 



