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present time, a docked tail, " good straight fore legs, fair 

 feet, and nice bone." A terrier, about i81b. in weight, 

 lacking character somewhat, but bearing, in all but colour, 

 a resemblance to the present-time dog. In some of the 

 Buffet strains we have repeatedly seen animals very much 

 of the shape and style of this terrier, as De Wilde has 

 drawn him. The engraving, a rare one, indeed I have 

 seen or heard of only one other copy besides that which is 

 in the writer's possession, will no doubt do something to 

 assist us in arriving at a satisfactory decision as to the 

 original colour of the real fox terrier. 



Still against this we have the evidence of the late Captain 

 Keene, one of the most popular members of the Kennel 

 Club, who only a short time before his untimely death in 

 May, 1896, discovered two interesting paintings by Francis 

 Sartorius, dated 1796. The one represents a black and 

 white or black, white, and tan marked dog, called Viper, 

 looking at a fox whose face is discernible at the top of a 

 tree stump. The second picture is a couple of terriers, one 

 white, the other with a black patch on one side and a black 

 and tan patch round the right eye. Another painting by 

 Sartorius is at Steepleton, formerly the residence of Peter 

 Beckford and still occupied by his descendants. This is 

 four of the crack hounds belonging to the great authority 

 on hunting, and in the background are two terriers — one 

 black and tan, the other evidently of a lighter colour, brown 

 or fawn — they both, however, appear to be more or less Wire- 

 haired. These pictures form proof that fox terriers before 

 they became fashionable were not unusually black and tan, 

 but at the same time there were white ones, and generally 

 they were of greater variety in their hues than we are 

 accustomed to see now. Colonel Thornton towards the 



