CHAPTER II. 



Increasing Popularity — Early Shows — Good Classes 

 — Old Jock, Particulars of His Purchase — Tartar, 

 Old Trap, and Grove Nettle— Notable Kennels 

 — Black and Tan Heads — Growing Disuse of the 

 Fox Terrier with Hounds — Exceptions. 



HE present popularity of the Fox Terrier com- 

 menced some thirty-five years or so ago, and during 

 the decade which immediately followed that period 

 the progress it made in the estimation of the people was 

 phenomenal. Nothing of the kind had previously occurred 

 in relation to any quadruped whatever, and if fortunes 

 were not actually made by trading and dealing in fox 

 terriers, fair incomes were provided, and there became a 

 demand for " keepers " who understood the breed, or, at 

 any rate, said they did so, and knew how to look after the 

 inmates of the kennel. Those days are still spoken of as 

 the " good old times," when really tip-top terriers were in 

 few hands, and in those of men who knew their value and 

 were able to obtain it. So long as a dog was white, with 

 a patch of black, or brown, or tan on him — even brindled 



