190 The Fox Terrier. 



St. Leger, and others already alluded to. Something of 

 the type of the latter was a young bitch Mr. Luke Turner 

 showed at the Kennel Club's Show in October of the same 

 year in which Nutcrack came into prominence. This was 

 a tan-marked terrier called Charnwood Marion, who made 

 a most successful debut, and, although not in the best 

 of form for the bench, pretty easily disposed of most of 

 her formidable opponents. How good she was will be easily 

 seen from her portrait on a preceding page. 



But I am perhaps rather anticipating, for there are other 

 " cracks " to note which made an earlier opening — Mr. 

 Clear's Cribbage, who went to America, and his Jigger, 

 to wit, both of the highest class. Then Cauldwell 

 Nailer had done quite his full share of winning — a dog 

 which was purchased for about 20/. by Mr. Thurnall — and 

 afterwards went to Mr. Harding Cox for about six times 

 that sum. Mr. A. Mutter, of Wandsworth, as soon as 

 Lord Edward had retired, brought out another extra good 

 terrier in the form of the pugilistically named Tipton 

 Slasher. This is one of the stamp of terriers after my 

 own heart, and I do not think any the worse of him for 

 the brindled mark he has on his head or face. At Guildford 

 Show in 1894 it was hard lines that he was not awarded 

 the special for the best sporting dog in the place, and 

 for the best fox terrier, for he had won in a very good 

 •class, and was, in my humble opinion, a much better terrier 

 than the smooth bitch of Mr. Gillett's which was placed 

 over him. Even at the Fox Terrier Show at Cheltenham, 

 in November, 1901, Tipton Slasher, looking very well, was 

 an easy winner in the class for veterans, he then being 

 nearly ten years old. 



Mr. F. Baguley, of Wyck Hall, Gloucester, sometimes 



