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the Kennel Club's not always correct volume says of him : 

 " Mr. J. H. D. Bayly, already mentioned, purchased him of 

 Mr. Cockayne, then kennelman to the Oakley Hounds, 

 and later at the Tickham kennels. Mr. Cockayne bought 

 him from a groom of Mr. Isted's, well known in the 

 Pytchley Hunt." The late Mr. Luke Turner, of Leicester, 

 believed Trap's sire was a dog called Tip, owned by Mr. 

 Hitchcock, a miller in Leicester. This dog bore a reputa- 

 tion for extraordinary gameness, and was the favourite sire 

 used by all the sporting characters in the district. The 

 coachman of Col. Arkwright, then Master of the Oakley, 

 put a bitch to this dog Tip, and the result of the alliance 

 was Trap. 



I have already proved, I think satisfactorily, that there 

 was an original fox terrier, black and tan in colour, with 

 possibly a little white on his chest and feet ; but, so far as 

 Trap was concerned, there has always been a belief that 

 either his sire or dam was a black and tan terrier pure and 

 simple. Mr. J. A. Doyle states that Mr. Bayly himself told 

 him such was the case. On the contrary, the late Rev. 

 T. O' Grady informed the writer that Trap's dam was a 

 heavily marked fox terrier — i.e., one with an unusual 

 amount of black and tan colour on her body and head. All 

 who have bred fox terriers know that in most strains these 

 heavily marked puppies keep appearing, and Mr. F. 

 Burbidge showed one in 1889, named Hunton Baron, 

 which a few generations ago would have been called a 

 black and tan terrier, and it was as well bred and good 

 looking a fox terrier of the modern type as any man need 

 desire to possess. There have been many others similarly 

 marked — Mr. Procter's Patch and Mr. A. Hargreaves' Dane 

 Gallantrv to wit. 



