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prizes (including the fifty guinea challenge cup offered by 

 the Fox Terrier Club) at all the leading shows. Tack was 

 generally considered to be about the best of his variety 

 exhibited in his day. His chief defect lay in a scantiness 

 of coat on his sides and ribs, and down his legs, but what 

 there was was of good, hard quality. Why the jacket was 

 thin can easily be guessed, for his sire Trick had for his 

 dam Patch, a smooth-coated bitch by Buffet out of Milly, 

 who was likewise a smooth-coated bitch descended from 

 the Trimmer family. This Patch must not be confounded 

 with other terriers of that name, as has been the case, for 

 she was owned by Mr. A. Maxwell; and was not the smooth 

 bitch of Mr. Proctor's that came from an adjoining district 

 in Durham. Tack's mother was the wire-haired bitch Lill 

 Foiler, whose dam was said to be a grand-daughter of the 

 Rev. J. Russell's Fuss, but whether this was the case is 

 doubtful. Lill Foiler, too, had " smooth blood " in her veins, 

 and possibly to the late Jester, sire of Trick, a pure terrier 

 of the old stamp, Tack owes his quality. Indeed, Jester 

 has been of such service in promoting the excellence of at 

 least one side of the present generation of wire-haired 

 terriers, that some description of him may be given. 



Jester, by Pincher out of Fan, born in September, 1877, 

 was bred by Mr. S. Rawlinson, Newton Morrell, near 

 Darlington. There were three in the litter, all dogs, two 

 died in puppyhood, and his sire being sold, the alliance 

 between him and Fan was not repeated. Jester's dam 

 came from Mr. M. Dodds, Stockton-on-Tees, son of an 

 ex-member of Parliament for that borough, and not to be 

 confounded with Jack Dodds, from whom the last owner of 

 Jester, Mr. A. Maxwell, Croft, purchased his favourite. 

 Jack Dodds is brother to George Dodds, for many years 



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