;38 The Fox Terrier. 



How untrue this was can be gauged from Mr. Wootton's 

 remarks on a previous page. Tartar's indomitable, game- 

 ness has never been gainsaid, and he was always fond 

 enough of a fight in the ring ; though I have seen terriers 

 furious in trying to get at an opponent when on the chain, 

 that would have been as eager to go the other way had the 

 collar been undone. Tartar's pedigree, as given in the first 

 volume of the Stud Book, is open to great doubt, though it 

 is said he was bred by Mr. Stevenson, of Chester, about 

 1862, from Weaver's Viper out of Donville Poole's Touch. 

 I think there is little doubt that he was a cross-bred dog, 

 for he was shown at Birmingham in 1863 pedigreeless, and 

 had those who looked after him cared to determine his 

 parentage (or if they possessed it to publish it), they could 

 easily have done so at that time and not waited until the 

 dog had gained a reputation. 



In one of his characteristic articles in Our Dogs, Mr. 

 T. Wootton, writing thus about Old Tartar, says, " This 

 old-time terrier was not, to my mind, 'a fox terrier 

 proper.' White in colour, with a pale lemon half-face, 

 I claimed him at a Birmingham show at the catalogue price 

 (£8), he being exhibited by Stevenson, of Chester. He 

 was by Weaver's Viper out of Donville Poole's Touch. 

 This bitch I had of the squire, a remarkably neat one, 

 barely 141b., marked like Tartar, all a ' Tarrier,' game — 

 my word for it, or she would not have eaten the squire's 

 good food. But I had the pleasure of selling him once 

 for £35 to Mr. Harry Herbert, of Nottingham, who 

 soon got tired of his plaything. My next sale of Tartar 

 was to Mr. T. W. Fitzwilliam, for £30 ; then to Captain 

 Kindersley, Brompton Barracks, Chatham ; and to Mr. 

 Gorse, of Radcliffe, near Nottingham. I really forget 



