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general gameness of the dachshund race than the 

 trials with them on the Continent at both foxes and 

 badger, which the best dogs have to treat much in 

 the same manner as our terriers have to do here on 

 certain occasions. It is quite the custom for such 

 trials to be arranged at certain dog shows in Belgium 

 and Germany for the delectation of English visitors, 

 who, however, do not as a rule take particularly 

 kindly to what some persons consider a high branch 

 of sport. 



About the period when the dachshund was gaining 

 its popularity here, considerable correspondence about 

 him took place in the Field as to what he was and 

 what he was not, and, if I make no mistake, Mr. 

 Barclay Hanbury,Mr. John Fisher (Cross Hill, Leeds), 

 and others, gave their opinions on the subject. How- 

 ever, notwithstanding the complications likely to 

 ensue on the introduction of a new breed, especially 

 when one authority quoted Dr. Fitzinger, who said 

 there were twelve varieties of the dachshund a 

 statement fortunately qualified by the remark that 

 they were mostly cross-bred all went well. In due 

 course something like the correct article was fixed 

 upon, and from that we have our dogs of the present 

 time. As a fact I see less discrepancy in the type of 

 the modern dachshund than is to be noticed in some 

 other purely English braeds the fox terrier, to wit. 



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