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on shorter limbs and longer in body, her chest was unusually 

 deep, she stood on straight legs, and was unusually powerful 

 for an animal of her size. She was a daughter of Trick's 

 from Lady Hazel, by Filbert Lady Relish, by Raby Pickle. 



An oddly-named terrier was the above-named Filbert, 

 previously known as Pulborough Jumbo, a black-headed, 

 determined-looking, rather leggy dog, who, from being 

 entered in a catalogue at something like y/., came to be 

 sold for ioo/. He did considerable winning in his day 

 (about 1886-7), an d a person, who told me he was his 

 breeder, related some strange stories as to its career. Jumbo 

 was a cross-bred dog, said the man, and should have been 

 drowned as a puppy ; somehow he escaped that fate as he 

 did a second time when the cord was around his neck. Mr. 

 Nutt got hold of him, showed him successfully, and then 

 sold him as stated. Some dogs, like some human beings, 

 have their ups and downs in this life, but Jumbo was a 

 commoner in appearance, though a game-looking terrier, 

 and I need scarcely say that his pedigree is not to be found 

 in the stud book. 



I am afraid that within the past four years the wire- 

 haired fox terrier has not been improving, and certainly 

 no dog or bitch of any unusual excellence, or, to my 

 mind, so good as some of a few years previous, has 

 appeared. This is doubtless due to the continued crossing 

 of the old hard-coated strain with the more modern smooth 

 terrier. Besides, there has, somehow or other, been 

 brought about an undue development of coat, soft and 

 fluffy, which required artificial treatment to make it at all 

 presentable. Indeed it has been said to be almost one of 

 the " fine arts " of dog showing to be able to place a 

 modern wire-haired fox terrier in proper fashion before the 



