100 The Fox Terrier. 



Douglas Jostle, Driver, Regal, Stately, and Trinket are, or 

 were, good enough for anything. Some specially nice 

 terriers have come from Mr. H. Carter, of Cowley, Honiton, 

 and Mr. E. Powell, jun., of Shropshire, has for years kept 

 and bred some of the best of terriers, well known by their 

 prefix of "Rowton." Nor must those of Mr. W. Jordison, 

 of Thirsk, and Mr. C. Houlker, of Accrington, be for- 

 gotten. One might, however, go on interminably almost 

 making notes of these minor kennels, of which there are 

 hundreds throughout the country ; still, more than passing 

 allusion must be made to another kennel which attained dis- 

 tinction since the second edition of this volume was printed. 



Attention has been drawn on previous pages to the 

 manner in which I contrived to get together a pretty good 

 lot of fox terriers twenty-five years ago. To prove how time 

 brings about changes in canine as in other matters, the 

 particulars of the formation of the kennel once kept by 

 Mr. S. J. Stephens at Acton, near London, may perhaps 

 afford some evidence. In 1892 the gentleman in question, 

 like so many others who preceded him, set his mind on fox 

 terriers, and determined to expend something like 2000/. 

 on the formation of a suitable kennel of dogs and bitches, 

 and from which he would be likely to produce puppies 

 worthy of their ancestors' and of their owner's reputation. 

 At the Fox Terrier Club's show at Oxford in November, 

 1892, he decided to purchase, if possible, from Mr. Tinne, 

 who had been unusually successful there, the two bitches 

 Kate Cole and Ethel Newcome ; from Mr. Vicary, Vicety 

 and Valteline ; and from Messrs. Castle and Shannon 

 the well-bred Pamphlet. 



The Fox Terrier Chronicle said that " Mr. Tinne was 

 first asked what he would take for his couple of bitches, 



