84 The Fox Terrier. 



it was a little too round ; this was more in appearance 

 than in fact, arising from a rather low placement of the 

 ears. 



Up to the time Result retired from the show bench, his 

 last appearance being at the Fox Terrier Club's show in 

 1888, when he won the challenge cup, he retained all his 

 leading characteristics, though for some few months before 

 his death, which occurred on the last day of the year 1894, 

 he had been quite blind. This good dog was beaten only 

 on three occasions, twice by Messrs. Vicary's Vesuvienne, a 

 portrait of whom appears on another page in addition to a 

 short history of her, and once by his own daughter Rachel, 

 However, he survived long enough to turn the tables on 

 both his opponents. Altogether he won the fifty-guinea 

 challenge cup on eleven occasions. 



Regent was another excellent dog in the Nottingham 

 kennels, and that his constitution was of the best may 

 be inferred from the fact that in 1894, when twelve years of 

 age, he became the sire of a strong and healthy lot of 

 puppies. He died about the same time as Result. Raffle, 

 Reckon, and First Flight were also far above the average. 

 The bitches from the same strain were often lighter in bone 

 than the dogs, and not so characteristic. Rachel, already 

 alluded to, was a lovely terrier, and the best of her sex the 

 Messrs. Clarke ever bred. Money tempted them to send 

 her to America, though it is said that at the same time an 

 even more liberal offer for Result did not lead to a sale. 

 Other specially good bitches of theirs were Radiance, 

 Recherche, Rosemary, Richmond Nettle, and Raillery. It 

 seems somewhat strange that latterly Messrs. Clarke have 

 not produced any terrier of great excellence, though they 

 continue to breed from both dogs and bitches of pretty 



