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nor too little, and in the early portion of her career her 

 coat was hard, short, and close ; later it became a little 

 soft. The hind quarters were- not quite so neat as one 

 would like to have seen, arching a little too much and more 

 crooked at the stifles than is actually to be wished ; still, 

 all round, Dorcas was one of the very best fox terrier 

 bitches we ever saw, and as such fully deserved the 

 eulogiums bestowed upon her. Still, good bitch as she 

 was, Mr. W. Allison, in judging her by points in 1877, 

 placed her below Bloom, making the latter almost perfect 

 by giving her 96 out of a possible 100; Dorcas being 

 awarded but 86. Personally, I considered the latter quite 

 a class ahead of the former. Dorcas's head stuffed and 

 mounted, hanging on the walls of the Kennel Club, does 

 her scant justice. 



Messrs. Bewley and Carson, who resided in Liverpool, 

 about this time were going the circuit of the shows, and by 

 the aid of Quiz won a great number of prizes. This was 

 an unusually nice terrier in every way, though not of a 

 fashionable pedigree (being by Watty— Midge, whatever 

 they were), nor am I quite certain that, in 187 1, he was not 

 the best terrier of his year. Mr. N. Archer, who bred him 

 at Stourbridge, was more than once present at the big 

 shows with some dog better than common — the bitch 

 Diamond for instance, though there was some trouble about 

 her ears. Mr. Gamon, of Chester, did honour to that city 

 by producing many of the best dogs of his day. His tan- 

 headed Chance, which was found suffocated in his box at 

 the Crystal Palace show in June, 1870, was, whatever any 

 one says to the contrary, about as perfect in his variety as 

 anything we have seen. His coat, perhaps a little fine, was 

 close, and the skin could scarcely be found underneath it ; 



