180 The Fox Terrier. 



huntsman to the Hurworth, and who, in his time, had 

 charge of the late Mr. T. Wilkinson's otter hounds at 

 Neasham. It is very curious that with such a dog, and one 

 that has produced such stock, the pedigree cannot be 

 traced any further than given here. His sire Pincher was 

 a prize winner on many occasions, and, between 1869-71, 

 was, with the late Mr. Donald Graham's Venom, considered 

 the best specimen of the day. 



Jester, up to his twelfth year, was as strong on his feet 

 as ever, and hardly possessed a broken or cankered tooth 

 in his head. His constitution thus must have been 

 thoroughly sound. He was not shown until five years 

 old, when he won first prize at Knightsbridge, on the 

 occasion of the Fox Terrier Club's Show being held 

 there, and later he scored further successes, never being 

 exhibited without some card of honour. Weighing i81b., 

 Jester had a coat like pin wire, plenty of it down his 

 sides and legs, even to his feet, which were thickly padded 

 and close ; he excelled, too, in the colour of his eyes, and 

 the ears were small and well carried. He died when he 

 was over fourteen years old, and has a memorial erected 

 to his memory at Croft, near Darlington. 



Prior to the introduction of the Jester blood, and so 

 early as 1876, a strain was developing, which came from 

 a terrier called Broom, shown by Mr. Henry Lacey, of 

 Manchester, in 1875 and later, and although this was a 

 dog I never liked, and looked a commoner (he had no 

 pedigree whatever, and could not even boast of being 

 sprung from an eminent North Yorkshire strain like Jester 

 could), his influence remains to this day, and many of his 

 descendants have proved as good terriers as man could 

 desire, i.e., so far as looks are concerned. 



