44 The Fox Terrier. 



Grove Nettle should be mentioned here, for to her, quite as 

 much as to any one of the couple and a half of terriers already 

 named, is due a share in the present production. Bred in 

 1862 by Jack Morgan, there does not appear to be any 

 mystery as to her pedigree, she being by the Grove Tartar 

 from the Rev. W. Handley's Sting. Nettle was a prettily- 

 shaped, tan-headed bitch, with a black mark on her side, a 

 rather long, wavy coat, almost inclined to be broken-haired. 

 The Hon. T. W. Fitzwilliam, her owner, said "the difficulty 

 was to keep her above ground." Another good judge said 

 " there was not a more useful animal in the show when she 

 was exhibited in the champion class at Birmingham in 

 1868," and he further described her as rather long in the 

 body, and, although possessing immense bone, not losing 

 one iota in quality. In the possession of the Kennel Club, 

 may be seen all that remains of this grand bitch, for she is 

 set up in a case, looking as hideous and unlike that 

 which she was in nature as " stuffed " dogs do nine times 

 out of ten. 



" This famous bitch," Mr. Wootton wrote in Our Dogs, 

 " a kennel terrier of the first class, was bred in 1862 by Jack 

 Morgan (not Will Merry), the then huntsman to the Grove 

 Foxhounds, near Retford, Notts. There is no mystery 

 about her pedigree or her goodness. I gave Morgan £5 for 

 her when nine months old. She had a broken leg at the 

 time, caused by a hack in a horse-box, where the bitch was 

 housed. She was nearly well, and when, in a week after- 

 wards, she was fit to travel I fetched her away. This was 

 when I lived at my Daybrook Cottage home She always 

 carried her leg up. This was before dog shows became the 

 fashion. She was certainly a remarkable bitch for beauty 

 and goodness, and won special prizes ; never very high in 



