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years ago, and especially so far as the heads are concerned. 

 As to Result, his owner tells me that the length of the head 

 is actually 7^in., but in the two measurements he comes out 

 8in., through taking the tape from eye to occiput across 

 the skull, which is 5m. ; length of nose, 3m. Mr. Sandell, 

 when he compiled his figures, did not include any bitches, 

 so Vesuvienne, her sex taken into consideration, comes out 

 even better, and, when I state that the measurements 

 of Venio were taken when he was six years old, and 

 that he is the heaviest terrier of the batch, his figures are 

 also excellent. Lyons Sting likewise comes out of the 

 ordeal of figures satisfactorily, whilst of the latest champions 

 Dreadnought and Duchess of Durham figure most 

 satisfactorily in every way. I am sure that all admirers 

 of the fox terrier will, as I do, thank Messrs. Clarke, 

 Mr. Vicary, Mr. F. Redmond, and Mr. F. S. H. Dyer- 

 Bennet for the trouble they have taken in obtaining the 

 measurements. 



I suppose there is little necessity to remind any of my 

 readers, that even if they do possess a fox terrier with a 

 head 7tin. in length, that stands i-j-iin. in height from the 

 ground to the shoulders, and weighs i61b., they do not, of 

 a certainty, own a champion. Possibly, when this volume 

 has been carefully perused, any uncertainty its readers 

 have possessed as to the merits of their favourites may 

 have been removed. 



So much for figures alone. If one cannot select the best 

 animals by means of numerals, can we do so by the means 

 of points, or by any process at all ? Points by which to 

 judge are well enough in theory, but sadly out of place in 

 practice, being wearisome, and thoroughly uncertain, for it 

 is quite as much a matter of opinion as to how many points 



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