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of them have already been mentioned. I should say that 

 since that time the six best fox terriers have been, or are, 

 Vesuvienne, Venio, Vice Regal, Donna Fortuna, Duchess 

 of Durham, and Dreadnought. 



All I have written must surely convey an impression that 

 at the present time the smooth-coated fox terrier is the 

 most popular quadruped ever existent. There is a magazine 

 or newspaper published each month called the Fox Terrier 

 Chronicle, established as far back as March, 1883; there 

 are at least ten fox terrier clubs in being, and every other 

 man you meet in the street considers himself a right good 

 judge of the variety. Who would ever have thought all 

 this could have sprung from the few fox terriers shown at 

 Birmingham less than thirty-five years ago ; but time works 

 changes, and no one can tell how the fancy dog may be a 

 quarter of a century hence. 



There will always be a great difference of opinion as to 

 the respective merits and otherwise of any terriers, for 

 even in doggy matters it sometimes occurs that what is 

 " one man's meat is another man's poison." This was so 

 in our early days, when there was, perhaps, quite as much 

 difference in type as there is at the present time. I have 

 drawn attention to the weedy, light boned, ill-tempered, 

 but gaudily coloured, black and tan headed Trimmer, yet 

 when he was winning all before him for Mr. Murchison 

 (who, by the way, had paid far into " three figures" for 

 the little dog) there were other terriers in the same 

 kennel which were as unlike the " champion " as possible, 

 and it is quite likely that their blood and breeding were 

 similarly diverse. 



Animals like Turco, Renard, and Vandal were all over- 

 sized, and not very far removed from bull terriers in 



