34 The Fox Terrier. 



1870 was placed second to Trimmer at one of the London 

 shows amongst a greater lot of cracks than have ever been 

 brought together since, unless their equal was to be found 

 at the Fox Terrier Club's show at Derby in November, 1894. 

 All round Jock was a symmetrical terrier, and no specimen 

 of late years has reminded me so much of him as the dog 

 Rattler, who did so much winning. Jock, who is said to 

 have run two seasons with the Grove Hounds, had his tail 

 cut, but the portion left on was longer than is usually seen 

 at the present day, and I fancy Jock, docked as short as Mr. 

 Luke Turner's Spice, would have presented but a sorry 

 spectacle. 



Of old Jock and his breeding, Mr. Wootton wrote me as 

 far back as Christmas 1895: " Jock's dam, Grove Pepper, 

 was left in the kennel by Will Merry, the retiring hunts- 

 man. This bitch was given to me by Morgan; a white in 

 colour with slight tan mark on her face, about i61b. She 

 was a wonder, with a hunting coat, and could go the pace 

 and do the trick. She went blind ; I well recollect, as if 

 but yesterday, the poor old bitch feeling her way to get to 

 the badger den, where a 3olb. one lived ; not a semi- 

 domesticated one, but a demon. I sent Pepper to Morgan, 

 full of years, to die. Jock won many prizes for me, and I 

 sold him upon several occasions. The first time I parted 

 with him was to the Hon. T. W. Fitzwilliam, Wentworth, 

 who came with Lord Aboyne to see my terriers, when I 

 lived at Mapperly House. The price was £35. In one of 

 the very many letters I have, Mr. Fitzwilliam says, ' I was 

 taking the terriers a walk in the park, and suddenly Jock 

 went to ground and fought a vixen. It was some time 

 before we could get him out ; ' and he adds, ' What will the 

 jealous and unscrupulous say now of " the pluckless cur." 



