50 The Fox Terrier. 



whilst those with hard jackets appeared mostly confined to 

 the Yorkshire and more Northern districts. The Badsworth 

 had a rare hard-bitten strain of terriers with their hounds, 

 mostly smooth-coated ones, too. The Slingsbys, an old 

 sporting family, who for generations resided at Scriven 

 Park, Yorkshire, had likewise a strain that was bad to beat 

 at anything. These, too, had smooth jackets, showed bull- 

 dog or bull terrier blood, were mostly lemon marked, from 

 131b. to 1 61b. weight, and usually possessed prick ears. 



A little bitch from Mr. Vyner's was about as game a 

 terrier as I ever saw, though her coat was thin and she had 

 been brought up as a house pet. On one occasion this bitch 

 went to ground in the North of England to drive what was 

 generally considered to be a fox. Underground a long 

 time, a couple of hours or more, with difficulty she was 

 called out, and from the punishment she had received 

 conclusions were drawn that a badger was in the rocks. 

 The poor terrier had her jaw broken, and her face bitten 

 through and through ; still she escaped* from her owner, 

 went to her game again, and when got out a second time 

 was almost dead. The badger was afterwards taken, and 

 it is pleasing to note that the plucky little bitch survived 

 her injuries. 



Mr. Doyle, in his admirable article in " The Book of the 

 Dog," tells us that the strain Mr. Stevenson owned at 

 Chester originally came from Shropshire, where they had 

 been kept and cherished for years by Mr. Donville Poole, 

 of Maybury Hall. However, from a description of this 

 strain from the pen of Mr. S. W. Smith, and which 

 appears in the terrier division of " Modern Dogs" (1896), 

 it seems these game, hardy little fellows could scarcely be 

 classed as the correct type of the modern fox terrier, but 



