166 The Fox Terrier. 



ex-member of Parliament for that borough, and not to 

 be confounded with Jack Dodds, from whom the last 

 owner of Jester, Mr. A. Maxwell, Croft, purchased his 

 favourite. Jack Dodds is brother to George Dodds, for 

 many years huntsman to the Hurworth, and who, in his 

 now advancing years, has charge of Mr. T. Wilkinson's 

 otter hounds at Neasham. It is very curious that with 

 such a dog, and one that has produced such stock, the 

 pedigree cannot be traced any further than given here. 

 His sire Pincher was a prize winner on many occasions, 

 and, between 1869-71, was, with Mr. Donald Graham's 

 Venom, considered the best specimen of the day. 



Jester, up to his twelfth year, was as strong on his feet 

 as ever, and hardly possessed a broken or cankered tooth 

 in his head. His constitution thus must have been 

 thoroughly sound. He was not shown until five years 

 old, when he won first prize at Knightsbridge, on the 

 occasion of the Fox Terrier Club's Show being held 

 there, and later he scored further successes, never being 

 shown without some card of honour. Weighing i81b., 

 Jester had a coat like pin wire, plenty of it down his 

 sides and legs, even to his feet, which are thickly padded 

 and close ; he excels, too, in the colour of his eyes, and 

 the ears are small and well carried. He died when he 

 was over fourteen years old, and has a memorial mound 

 erected to his memory at Croft. 



Prior to the introduction of the Jester blood, and so 

 early as 1876, a strain was developing, which came from 

 a terrier called Broom, shown by Mr. Henry Lacey, of 

 Manchester, in 1875 and later, and although this was a 

 dog I never liked, and looked a commoner (he had no 

 pedigree whatever, and could not even boast of being 



