58 The Fox Terrier 



The present Lord Lonsdale had an idea of working some 

 of the prize-bred terriers with his hounds when he was 

 master of the Pytchley. But trie general surroundings of 

 modern fox hunting prevented him doing this properly and 

 as he would have wished. Still, a few of his high-priced, 

 fashionable little dogs were properly entered, and, I believe, 

 gave a good account of themselves whenever required so to 

 do. Mr. Harding Cox, when master of the Old Berkeley 

 Hounds, kenneled some good working terriers of the prize 

 strains, but his, like Lord Lonsdale's, were of the wire- 

 haired variety. Then the Littleworths, huntsmen for 

 generations, have always kept terriers, and even now own 

 some of show bench strains, which can, and do, accompany 

 the hounds when there is likely to be occasion for their 

 services. Indeed, there is still a fox terrier or two hanging 

 about either the kennels or the stable yard connected with 

 most hunts, but no pains are taken to perpetuate the variety 

 solely for bolting the fox, as once was the case. Modern 

 hunting, quick gallops, and the go-a-headedness of the times 

 have done away with his occupation, and the fox terrier 

 now possesses his greatest value in his beauty alone. At 

 the great Hound Show held during June of each year at 

 Peterborough, on occasions prizes have been given for 

 terriers which carry a record for having been entered and 

 employed with foxhounds. However, for some reason or 

 other, the terrier classes there were discontinued in 1894. 

 The competitors were usually somewhat of a ragged lot, 

 though occasionally the absolute winners were quite up to 

 modern show form in appearance ; moreover they were 

 well bred and likewise often bore the credentials of scars 

 as their " Victoria Cross." 



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