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prizes (including the fifty guinea challenge cup offered by 

 the Fox Terrier Club), at all the leading shows. Tack is 

 generally considered to be almost the best of his variety 

 ever exhibited. His chief defect lies in a scantiness of 

 coat on his sides and ribs, and down his legs, but what 

 there is, is of good, hard quality. Why the jacket is thin 

 can easily be seen, for his sire Trick had for his dam Patch, 

 a smooth-coated bitch by Buffet out of Milly, who was like- 

 wise a smooth-coated bitch descended from the Trimmer 

 family. This Patch must not be confounded with other 

 terriers of that name, as has been the case, for she was 

 owned by Mr. A. Maxwell, and was not the bitch of Mr. 

 Proctor's, that came from an adjoining district in Durham. 

 Tack's mother was the wire-haired bitch Lill Foiler, whose 

 dam was said to be a grand-daughter of the Rev. J. Russell's 

 Fuss, but whether this was the case is doubtful. Lill Foiler, 

 too, had " smooth blood " in her veins, and possibly to 

 the late Jester, sire of Trick, a pure terrier of the old 

 stamp, Tack owes his quality. Indeed, Jester has been 

 of such service in promoting the excellence of at least one 

 side of the present, that some description of him may be 

 given. Tack, at the time of writing (at the close of 1894), 

 is still in good health and form, evidently having taken a 

 fresh lease of life after his retirement from the show bench 

 half-a-dozen years or so ago, and a son or two of his were 

 shown at Derby in November, 1894. 



Jester, by Pincher out of Fan, born in September, 1877, 

 was bred by Mr. S. Rawlinson, Newton Morrell, near 

 Darlington. There were three in the litter, all dogs, two 

 died in puppyhood, and his sire being sold, the alliance 

 between him and Fan was not repeated. Jester's dam 

 came from Mr. M. Dodds, Stockton-on-Tees, son of an 



