CHAPTER V 



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The Wire-haired Fox Terrier — His Gameness — 

 Yorkshire and Devonshire Strains — The Rev. 

 John Russell's Terriers — The Sealy Ham Terrier 

 — Mr. Cowley's Terriers — Crosses — The Best 

 Dogs — A Beverley Kennel. 



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OST of the remarks made on former pages apply 

 to the wire-haired fox terrier equally with the 

 smooth-coated variety. In colour, make, shape, 

 character, legs and feet, they are as one, only in jacket or 

 coat do the two differ. With the wire-haired terrier the 

 latter should be hard and crisp, not too long, neither too 

 short, but of a tough, coarse texture, finer underneath, all 

 so close and dense that the skin cannot be seen or even 

 felt, and, if possible, so weather and water resisting that 

 the latter will stand on the sides like beads, and run off the 

 whole body as it is said to do, and does, off a duck's back. 

 There must not be the slightest sign of silkiness anywhere, 

 not even on the head. A curly jacket, or one inclined thereto, 

 is far better than a silky one. Indeed, some of the best 

 coated dogs of this variety I have seen, had more than an 



