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alliance, care may be taken when such puppies are born 

 in selecting one or more to keep with the bitch. Cases of 

 superfcetation are not uncommon in the dog, and there may 

 be mongrels and pure terriers born in the same litter. I 

 was told of a particularly good fox terrier which a friend of 

 mine desired to purchase. She, however, being a great 

 favourite in the house, could not be parted with, and her 

 owner said, " She is, no doubt, very nice to look at, but 

 unfortunately her dam is a spaniel, and all her brothers and 

 sisters are spaniels, too ! " 



Still another instance. The bitch Venom, grand-dam of 

 some of my best terriers, after being mated with a fox 

 terrier dog, formed a morganatic alliance with a Skye 

 terrier. All the pups, with one exception, were Skye 

 terriers, or, at any rate, half-bred ones. The exception 

 was a white bitch with a lemon-marked head. Her life 

 was the one saved, but merely to keep with the dam as a 

 matter of kindness. At four weeks old she was sold for 

 half-a-crown, and ultimately developed into one of the best 

 bitches of the day Nellie by name who, in due course, 

 had at least one illustrious family, an individual of which 

 sold for more than ioo/., and all in that same litter which 

 produced this " century puppy " became prize winners and 

 notabilities. 



Such instances show the amount of luck there may be 

 in breeding terriers as in anything else. The bitch Jess 

 (8037), by Grip Patch, from which most of Mr. A. H. 

 Clarke's best terriers are descended (Result included), 

 through her alliance with Brockenhurst Rally, was sent to 

 me on approval just before Mr. Clarke bought her. She 

 did not appear to me a likely model from which to produce 

 champions, so, after keeping her a couple of days, she was 



