70 The Fox Terrier. 



Henry Gibson's Dorcas mentioned further on. Olive — by 

 Belgrave Joe — Tricksey, by Chance — was an 1 81b. bitch, 

 with a black and tan head, and all round one of the best fox 

 terriers ever produced, and " Stonehenge " had her illustrated 

 for his " Dogs of the British Isles." Olive died in the 

 autumn of 1889, at the advanced age of fifteen years. 



Another almost equally powerful kennel about the same 

 time was that formed by the late Mr. Henry Gibson, at 

 Brockenhurst (he died about eighteen months ago), on 

 the borders of the New Forest, and whose name has 

 already appeared in these pages. From school-boy days 

 Mr. Gibson had been an admirer of fox terriers, and, when 

 he had scarcely entered his teens, contrived to obtain a 

 crack dog of the breed, for which he paid the exorbitant 

 sum of fifty shillings, and that was about fifty-five years ago. 

 Later in life Mr. Gibson availed himself of the opportunity 

 thrown in his way to cross this old strain of working 

 terriers with more modern ones, and thus he achieved the 

 honourable position occupied by the most successful 

 exhibitor of the day, which he certainly was about the 

 years 1873-6. 



Mr. Gibson always believed in the old-time terriers, and 

 considered that his earliest purchase, mentioned above, which 

 he had from Massey, Mr. Adderley's (now Lord Norton) 

 gamekeeper, of Hams Hall, Warwickshire, was the best he 

 ever possessed. This family of terriers was as game as 

 possible, quite free from any of the bull terrier blood ; and 

 many and many a week's hard work have these Brocken- 

 hurst dogs done when their time was not occupied on the 

 benches, where they had a long and successful career. 



Although most of these winners had been bred by their 

 owner, he was always ready in case of need to pick up 



