PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION 



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VOLUME such as this purports to be, devoted 

 to a variety of terrier, would twenty years ago 

 have been considered altogether superfluous. 

 Now, in 1889, so popular have dogs grown, and such 

 attention is given them, that a book which in its entirety 

 tells of the variety most popular of all — the Fox Terrier, 

 as he has been and as he is — becomes, as it were, one of 

 the necessities of the day. And so I was requested to do 

 the best 1 could in the matter. 



The result of my labours is given in the following pages, 

 and if the reader fails to find any novelty therein, he will, 

 at any rate, have a resume of the history of the smooth- 

 coated and wire-haired fox terriers, and some few trifling 

 scraps of information that have not hitherto appeared in 

 print. 



That this little dog does actually possess a status in 

 society may be inferred from the fact that, in addition to a 

 monthly journal (The Fox Terrier Chronicle) to look after 

 its interests, there are a number of special clubs to do 

 likewise ; a parent club with several minor institutions. 



The Fox Terrier is now best known as a dog for exhibi- 



