20 The Fox Terrier. 



The " Sportsman's Cabinet," published in two volumes in 

 1803-4, two years after the first volume of Daniel's " Rural 

 Sports " appeared, contains an engraving by Scott from a 

 spirited painting by Reinagle. Here we have three terriers, 

 one of which is white, with marks on his head and a patch 

 at the set on of stern. This is a wire-haired dog, with a 

 docked tail and erect ears, showing traces of a bull-terrier 

 cross from the shape of the skull and in his general 

 character. Another, evidently a white dog, is disappearing 

 from sight in an earth, whilst the third appears to be a 

 dark coloured dog, with a broad white collar and white 

 marks on his muzzle ; his ears are likewise erect. All will 

 pass muster as fox terriers, and if a little wide in chest for 

 modern fancy and prevailing fashion, they are strong-jawed 

 and appear eager for the fray. 



The writer in the " Sportsman's Cabinet " (two hand- 

 some volumes, with tail pieces by Bewick, originally pub- 

 lished at seven guineas), after alluding to the several 

 strains of terriers, says : " The genuine and lesser breed 

 of terrier is still preserved uncontaminate amongst the 

 superior order of sportsmen, and constantly employed in a 

 business in which his name, his size, his fortitude, persever- 

 ing strength, and invincible ardour, all become so 

 characteristically and truly subservient, that he may justly 

 be said ' to labour cheerfully in his vocation ; ' this is in 

 his emulous and exulting attendance upon the foxhounds, 

 where, like the most dignified and exulting personage in a 

 public procession, though last, he is not the least in con- 

 sequence." 



The same writer goes on to say that the white pied bitch 

 (already described) is the dam of a wonderful progeny, 

 most of which have been sold at high prices, " seven 



