80 The Fox Terrier. 



year), Gripper, and others I could mention. Riot bred a 

 whole host of good ones, including the aforesaid Mabel r 

 whose temper outside her own family was so detestable that 

 she could not be shown. I had her entered at one exhibition, 

 but she did nothing but sulk, kept her tail between her legs 

 in the ring, got a card of honour, as much as she deserved 

 under the circumstances, and concluded her day out by 

 biting three different people. There was no better bitch in 

 her day, and years afterwards she died far away in Ireland 

 in the bosom of the same family where she had lived from 

 puppyhood. A bitch named Olive (not Mr. Murchison's 

 excellent animal of that name), Grove Ella, Cedric (whose 

 breeder, pedigree, &c, are carelessly stated in the Stud 

 Book as unknown, was brother to Sally (694) ) ; Viking, 

 Bessie, and Mac III. (afterwards Sarcogen), prize winners 

 and good terriers in other respects, were all from the same 

 stock, and thus, with an original outlay of 5/. added to the 

 purchase of Crack and Mac II. for about 30/., a fair kennel 

 of fox terriers were got together. My dogs were invariably 

 kept in the house, three or four at home, the remainder on 

 " board wages " with cottagers and working men, who took as 

 much interest in the dogs as myself, and so did their wives 

 when they found an extra honorarium for the children and 

 new gowns for themselves at Christmas time. 



In considering this method of bringing up puppies — and, 

 indeed, in keeping terriers and small dogs — by far the best, 

 I by no means stand alone. Most of our principal exhibitors 

 now follow the plan, as being less likely to promote dis- 

 temper and other disorders than when fifty or a hundred 

 dogs are kept together. Then in the way of exercise, the 

 " boarding out " system has many advantages, and the dogs 

 so reared are more sensible and prove better showers and 



