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have been ; Mr. Sarsfield's business engagements prevented 

 him giving more than a passing attention to improving our 

 terriers, and Mr. Procter gained greater notoriety from his 

 strain of Cochin China fowls. Mr. Procter, however, still 

 keeps a terrier or two as companions, and shows them 

 successfully occasionally ; such as he has possess more or 

 less of the Fussy blood, and through her sire, Mr. Muster's 

 Ragman, go back to Old Trap, as is the case with so many 

 of our best strains. 



Mr. J. Holmes, jun.'s (Beverley) Gadfly, by Vassal, a son 

 of Jock and Grove Nettle, another much admired terrier in 

 his day, especially for the reputation he bore for gameness, 

 could not get high up in the prize list at Curzon Hall ; still 

 groups of sporting men were usually round his bench, as 

 was the case with Mr. F. Sale's Hornet — much the better of 

 the two — and he was a son of Grove Nettle. The same 

 exhibitor also owned an animal of unusual excellence in 

 Myrtle, by his Old Sam, a son of Tyrant, out of a bitch 

 called Jenny, by Old Jock. Mr. Luke Turner bred Myrtle, 

 who at five years old was good enough to win the challenge 

 prize at Birmingham. She had rather large ears, a weakish 

 jaw, and possessed neither the rough wear and tear 

 appearance nor character a hunting man likes to see in his 

 terrier. 



One of the best all-round fox terriers about now (1873, 

 or a little later) was the lovely little bitch Lille, so long 

 and successfully shown by Mr. Shepherd, of Beverley. 

 She looked like a daughter of Tyrant's, but was by Tartar 

 — Patch, out of Fell's Spot, all good-bred ones in their 

 way, but with little of the quality possessed by their illus- 

 trious descendant. Handsome as Lille was, stronger bone 

 and less delicate appearance would have improved her, 



