170 The Fox Terrier. 



showed a terrier 2olb. weight or more, which, but for his 

 large size, would have been the best of his day. A softish 

 coated dog, Mr. M. Harrison's Ajax, which I gave some 

 prizes to, I again met, this time away in Dorsetshire, at 

 the Sherbourne Hound Show in 1885, where, exhibited 

 under the name of Lynx by Moss, Lord Portman's hunts- 

 man, he took the first prize for terriers that had run with 

 hounds. On inquiry I found he was good at his work, 

 and in every way a credit to the north-country strain 

 from which he sprang. He was always about the place 

 when reynard required shifting from his stronghold, and 

 could drive him with but little trouble. 



North Star (afterwards Sam Weller), another good one, 

 but a bad shower and requiring trimming, I should say, 

 did as well in the south as in the north, being for a 

 year or two often in the prize lists. This dog had an 

 abundance of coat, but such celebrities as Timothy Foiler 

 formed one of a galaxy not so well off in this respect. 

 Trick, another of Mr. Carrick's, was a good sort of dog, 

 though a little common in appearance, and showing, to 

 one with even half an eye to character, that he was 

 a little bit of the " Creole" as crossed between the two 

 varieties. 



Although I have already mentioned a number of tip-top 

 terriers from the border city, another dog equal to any 

 was awaiting us at the Kennel Club's Show, which took 

 place in February, 1889, at the Alexandra Palace. This 

 was a white puppy called Carlisle Tyro, just about the right 

 size for his age, iylb. in weight, and allowed to be the 

 best of his kind seen, at any rate of late years, by Tack 

 (whose portrait is given elsewhere) from Vice. Tyro was 

 pupped on February 2Qth, 1888, thus being well on to 



