14 The Fox Terrier. 



drawn as above, James, no doubt, preferred hunting to 

 hawking, and could not always have been the elaborately 

 dressed creature as he appears in the engraving mentioned, 

 for there is a story told that whilst with the hounds at Bury 

 St. Edmunds, the Sovereign's attention was attracted by 

 the gaudy apparel worn by one of the hunters. " Who is 

 that?" said the king. " Sire," was the answer, "that man 

 is named Lamb." "Ahem," replied the royal joker, "his 

 name may be Lamb, and an appropriate one it be, for 

 surely he has gotten a fleece upon his back." 



With the commencement of the past century and 

 towards the close of the previous one, more was written 

 about terriers, and, as useful little dogs, they were gradually 

 becoming appreciated. Beckford alludes to black or white 

 terriers, and from these two varieties white ones with 

 black marks could easily be produced. The same author 

 mentions a strain of terriers so like a fox in colour that 

 awkward people frequently mistake the one for the other, 

 and proceeds to say that " If you prefer Terriers to run 

 with the pack, large ones at times are extremely useful, but 

 in an earth they do little good, as they cannot always get 

 up to their fox." He, no doubt, valued them at their full 

 worth, and, in his "Thoughts on Hunting," laments the 

 loss of the whole of those connected with his pack of 

 hounds whilst attempting to swim the Stower during 

 a flood. 



Between the years 1800 and 1805 an unusually large 

 number of sporting books and works on hunting and dogs 

 were published, all of which dealt more or less with terriers. 

 "The Sporting Dictionary," 1803, says, "Terriers of even 

 the best blood are now bred of all colours — red, black with 

 tan faces, flanks, feet, and legs ; brindled, sandy, some few 



