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best he ever saw go to ground was one eighth bull, though 

 he showed it no more than Jock, the champion. 

 There are few varieties of the species cam's which show 

 more intelligence than the fox terrier," and " Gelert " (a 

 sporting writer and compiler of a list of foxhounds, &c, in 

 1849), the Rev. John Russell, and other authorities, support 

 this opinion. 



In the first edition of the " Dogs of the British Isles " 

 the author (" Stonehenge ") says, "that until the establish- 

 ment of dog shows Captain Percy Williams, Jack Morgan, 

 and five or six of our foremost huntsmen were the posses- 

 sors of the most celebrated strains of fox terriers ; but no 

 sooner were special prizes offered for them at Birmingham, 

 Leeds, and London, as well as in conjunction with those for 

 foxhounds at the Cleveland Society's celebrated gatherings 

 in Yorkshire, than Mr. Wootton, of Nottingham; Mr. 

 Stevenson, of Chester, in conjunction with Mr. Gorse, 

 also of Nottingham, and other breeders of less note, set 

 themselves to work to vie with the professionals, and 

 produced the beautiful little terriers which time after time 

 have adorned the benches of Birmingham and Islington. 

 Many of them have no doubt never seen a fox ; but there 

 are few which are not capable of giving a good account of 

 him if properly entered." This was written in 1866, when 

 the popularity of the fox terriers had in a degree been 

 achieved. 



Mr. Walsh mentions only some seven or eight kennels 

 of hounds having terriers of the show type, but there is 

 little doubt a score or more of them had such. When once 

 their value became known, they kept cropping up from all 

 parts of the country, both smooth and wire-haired, the 

 former generally from the Midland and Southern counties, 



