KENNEL TERRIERS 



ment to some tune. Where two little 'uns can 

 get at him they can generally force him to get 

 " out of that," or make an end of him on the 

 spot. Cross-bred terriers seem to stand wet 

 and cold better than fox-terriers, though some of 

 the latter are capital workers if they have been 

 bred from purely working parents. In the 

 North, many people are averse to white terriers, 

 considering them inferior to coloured ones. This 

 is probably because the majority of working 

 terriers in the fell country and elsewhere are 

 coloured; but good terriers come in all colours, 

 like horses, and there are plenty of dead game 

 white ones to be found. Many show terriers are 

 really too long in the jaw. An over long jaw, is 

 like a lengthy pair of scissors, difficult to cut with 

 at the points owing to loss of leverage. The fox 

 has a comparatively short jaw, and so has the 

 otter, yet both are capable of inflicting a very 

 severe bite. 



Some of the best all-round working terriers 

 to-day are to be found with the fell foxhound 

 packs in the Lake District. They are prac- 

 tically all cross-bred, with Bedlington, Border, 

 etc., blood in them. Joe Bowman, the well 

 known huntsman of the Ullswater, has had some 

 famous terriers in his time, and it may be of 

 interest to review some of these game little dogs 

 and their doings. Probably one of the best 

 known terriers was Corby, by Lord Decies' 

 Sweep out of a Patterdale bitch. Corby on one 

 occasion killed three foxes underground single- 

 handed, the combined weights of the three 

 totalling 62lb. Then there was Turk, a brown, 

 wire-haired dog, weighing i6fb., whose sire 

 Frisk died through continual maulings from 

 foxes. Turk once killed a fox weighing a good 



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