An Application from Philadelphia. 109 



Philadelphia to the effect that my correspondent had 

 purchased a fox terrier which unfortunately had no pedi- 

 gree. His friends told him that such a dog was quite 

 useless even as a rat killer or as a creature to be admired, 

 when he did not even know the name of its sire and dam, 

 so he would be much obliged to me if I would write him 

 out a suitable pedigree for his little terrier. He thought 

 one from England would be better than one manufactured 

 at home. At the same time the correspondent would be 

 pleased if I would hand the pedigree to " Mr. Peter Jackson " 



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Measurement Diagram (seep. no). 



(at that time in London), for he lived only a few doors from' 

 the young man who wrote to me. I need scarcely tell my 

 readers that " Mr. Peter Jackson " was a renowned coloured 

 pugilist, but my dulness prevented me seeing the connec- 

 tion between a spurious pedigree and a popular " bruiser." 



About twenty-one years ago the late Mr. Edward Sandell, 

 an excellent judge of a terrier, writing under the nom de 

 plume of " Caractacus," obtained the measurements, with 

 the heights and weights, of some forty of the principal fox 

 terriers at that time, and from them struck a general 



