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companions than when brought up in a kennel. Messrs. 

 Clarke and Mr. Francis Redmond, whose successes with 

 their fox terriers will be dealt with later on, adopt a 

 similar method, all their puppies being in the keeping of 

 cottagers and others, who do well to them, and are, of 

 course, suitably rewarded for their pains and attention. 

 Breeding generally from some twenty-rive bitches, Messrs. 

 Clarke had, at one time, at least a couple of hundred puppies 

 to select from annually — a formidable undertaking, no doubt. 

 Mr. Redmond tells me that he has never more than about 

 forty puppies each year at walk, whilst his show and stud 

 dogs and brood bitches, of which more anon, are kept in 

 model kennels at Totteridpe. 



From what has been written as to the formation of the 

 kennel I at one time possessed, it will be seen that there 

 is little difficulty in getting together a family of terriers, and 

 only change of residence caused me to give up " dogs " and 

 scatter the results of my few years' experience broad-cast 

 on the world. Some terriers containing my strains are 

 knocking about this country still, others are in Russia and 

 France, some even further away, in the Antipodes and in 

 various parts of America, and, properly entered and taken 

 care of, they will be sure to do their duty. 



With the establishment of the Kennel Club in 1874, and 

 of the Fox Terrier Club two years later, pedigrees came to 

 be more reliable, new hands were seen bringing their terriers 

 into the ring, and fresh strains came to be produced. Some 

 of the old-fashioned blood which Mr. W. Allison and his 

 brother-in-law, Mr. T. H. Scott (who contributed various 

 articles about terriers to the newspapers under the nom de 

 plume of " Peeping Tom "), introduced from Yorkshire, 

 did not nick well with other strains, though with Old Jester, 



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