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dog was bred by Mr. Cauverley, of Greetham, whose family had kept the 

 breed for a century. Old Trap was, descended from a black and tan breed, 

 and I believe Old Jock was also." 



It is not worth while giving Mr. Scott's communication in full, for the 

 dogs he speaks of are so far back in pedigrees and we have bred so entirely 

 different from their types that it is doubtful if our readers would retain 

 interest in the recital. We will therefore run through it and give the features 

 as they appear to us. Grove Nettle was a bitch of such claims that Mr. 

 Scott doubted whether there was anything in 1880 she could not have beaten. 

 Trimmer he speaks highly of, and he was the sire of Belvoir Joe. Lord 

 Middleton's terriers were of the same strain as the Grove, and his kennel's 

 Nettle was the grandam of Belvoir Joe. Mr. Bower's strain, extensively 

 used in North of England kennels, had bull-terrier blood in the line. That 

 there were plenty of impurely bred terriers thirty years ago masquerading 

 as fox terriers is seen from this sentence on the dogs of that day: "I would 

 much sooner breed from a dog with an unauthenticated pedigree that gets 

 good stock than from such animals as Diver, Draco, Brick, Bitters or 

 Trimmer. Diver was by a bull terrier; Draco was by a carriage dog, so I 

 have heard; Brick was nearly related to a beagle; Bitter's dam has no 

 pedigree, and he has got no good stock; Trimmer's sire was undershot and 

 his dam had prick ears." 



When there was so much bad blood about, it is no wonder that the 

 few lines of soundly bred terriers became very prominent, and at one time 

 the strain that outranked all others was the Belvoir terriers. We will, 

 therefore, quote more fully as to them : 



"As Belvoir Joe is the best known to breeders of the present day, I will 

 give his pedigree, which can be traced back for upward of forty years. Bel- 

 voir Joe was bred by W. Cooper, late huntsman to the Belvoir, and was by 

 his Trimmer out of Trinket — a grand-looking bitch and one that would take a 

 lot of getting over by the best of the present time; Trinket was by the Belvoir 

 earth-stopper's Trap out of Ben Morgan's Nettle; Trimmer, from the 

 Grove, was by a favourite dog of Sir Richard Sutton's out of a bitch belong- 

 ing to Tom Day, late huntsman to the Quorn. Ben Morgan got Nettle 

 from his brother at the Grove. I have seen her, and she was a very good- 

 looking terrier, rather heavily marked with black and tan. She got a prize 

 or two at the Yorkshire shows. The Belvoir earth-stopper's Trap was by 

 the late Will Goodall's Doc, bred by a huntsman named Rose, and Goodall 



