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they were the dogs the late Mr. John Walker alluded to in 

 his celebrated contribution in which he stated that nothing 

 came amiss to the wretches from a " pig to a postman," 

 an unfortunate letter carrier being attacked by them and 

 so bitten about the legs that death ensued. Then the 

 late Sir Watkin Wynn had a strain of his own in Wales 

 (not Welsh terriers these), and so had Lord Hill on the 

 borders of the Principality. Down in Devonshire the 

 sporting villages simply teemed with little dogs, but most 

 of these were wire-haired, and the Rev. John Russell 

 valued them highly, as did Mr. Cheriton and other hunting 

 men of the locality. The Rufford, too, had its own 

 speciality in fox terriers ; so had Mr. Ffrance, in Cheshire ; 

 and even in Northumberland, from the Tyndale came one 

 of the best fox terrier bitches I ever saw. She, however, 

 crops up a little later, and had all the good qualities of a 

 modern first prize winner, with the exception of being very 

 much tucked up in her loins, and she carried what remained 

 of her stern right over her back. Some exhibitors might 

 have cut it all off, and said the absence of her caudal 

 appendage was due to an accident of some kind or another. 

 The Farquharsons, in Dorsetshire, owned excellent 

 terriers, that would drive a fox out of its earth with 

 the best of them, and the excellences of those of the 

 Duke of Beaufort have repeatedly been mentioned. Tread- 

 well, too, always kept a few couple of hardy ones handy 

 for work with the Old Berkeley, as did old Ben Morgan for 

 the use of Lord Middleton's hounds ; and the late Will 

 Goodall, George Beers, with Frank, his son, were never 

 happy unless they had some of the gamest of the game 

 well within call when required, after a good stout fox had 

 dodged the stopped earths and gone to ground. 



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