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sport. He hunted as often as possible with the Hey- 

 throp, the Bicester, and the Old Berkshire, and learnt 

 many a wrinkle, of great value to him afterwards, 

 from Phil Payne and Will Long, Stephen Goodall and 

 Tom Wingfield, on which he set more store than on any- 

 thing he gleaned from lectures. A fine, strapping, big- 

 limbed young fellow he was, six feet in his stockings, 

 and with his long reach and quick eye he became, 

 under the tuition of Rowlands, a pupil of the celebrated 

 ' Gentleman ' Jackson, a very formidable customer with 

 the gloves. Mr Davies, his biographer, gives a most 

 graphic and spirited account of a great glove-match 

 between the three ' pets ' of Christ Church and the 

 fighting-trio of Exeter, of whom Russell was one, in 

 which the former were most ignominiously worsted. 

 Jack Russell used to admit that he fairly revelled in a 

 good Town and Gown row, where he could use his fists 

 without the restrictions of the sparring-school. 



One event of his academical career Russell never forgot. 

 On a May afternoon, just before the examination for 

 his degree, as he was mooning about the fields near 

 Marston, he fell in with a milkman at whose heels 

 followed a terrier on which Jack Russell at once cast 

 covetous eyes. Here is his own description of the dog : 

 • White, with just a patch of dark tan over each eye and 

 ear, while a similar dot, not larger than a penny, marked 

 the root of the tail ; coat thick, close, and a trifle wiry, 

 legs straight as arrows, size and height those of a full- 

 grown vixen.' This was the famous Trump, progenitress 

 of that renowned race of terriers with which the name 

 of Russell will always be associated by dog-fanciers. 



They were real /i?.;ir- terriers — entered early and only at 

 fox. Perhaps the cleverest of Trump's sons was Tip, 



