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for sale are worth looking up by anyone with old copies 

 of The Field. Most of such terriers were : 



" True, tried and trusted : the companions in many 

 a wild adventure, from the rat in the gutter to the badger 

 in the brake." 



All had splendid pedigrees, but that was before the days 

 of the Kennel Club Stud-book. 



I had little chance of sport or even of dog-showing for 

 some years after setting to work in London. Hunting 

 and shooting were for me at an end, and in 1878 and 1879 

 I did not even see the Derby. My own mares had drifted 

 into the ownership of Hume- Webster, and the various 

 animals that I had been interested in as lessor viz. 

 Miss Costa, the Gowan, Despotism, etc. had proved 

 unlucky so far as I was concerned, though they were smart 

 enough afterwards. Someone bought Memorandum for 

 me for 300 guineas after he had won a selling race at 

 Sandown Park in 1877. No one was authorised to do so, 

 and I was at Leeds, but this thing was done, and I was 

 saddled with what was an obviously injudicious purchase. 

 Edwin Parr, who had trained Lord Clifden, trained 

 Memorandum for me at Stoughton, and all but won a 

 race with him at Alexandra Park, when we had 50 on 

 him and he was beaten a short head ; but he never did 

 any good after that, and later, when I leased him to 

 Charles Lund at Malton, he only went from bad to worse. 



Altogether, things began to look pretty bad, and there 

 was the fear always before me that it would be impossible 

 to make good at the Bar in time to prevent real trouble. 



