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kindly to the " bench," where he is comfortably bedded 

 up with clean straw, and is seldom (nowadays at any 

 rate) rendered cantankerous by continual poking with 

 the umbrella or walking-stick of some mischievous and 

 badly-behaved visitor. No dog, however docile and well 

 behaved, will stand such treatment, and when it occurs 

 the offending person should be removed from the proximity 

 of the animal which he desires to torture. In cases where 

 a terrier does actually sulk, and seems to have a dis- 

 inclination to make himself comfortable and contented 

 when on exhibition, it is best to withdraw him entirely 

 from the public gaze, as, in the end, he may turn unplea- 

 sant, and require either a muzzle or special contrivance 

 to prevent his teeth making an acquaintance with a tender 

 portion of some too curious and closely approaching 

 spectator. 



Having dealt with the fox terrier, both as a worker and 

 as a show doe, little more need be said about him. Whether 

 you require him for the one purpose or the other, treat him 

 as kindly as you would your best friend, and under ordinary 

 circumstances he will reward you accordingly. Make him 

 a companion, to live in the house or in the stable, and on 

 no account relegate him to a wooden kennel in the corner 

 of the back yard. The fox terrier was no more made to 

 reside in such an abode than was my lord brought up to 

 inhabit a common lodging-house. The more you see of 

 your dog the more he loves you, and greater is the likeli- 

 hood of his turning out a sensible animal. There are 

 imbecile dogs as there are human beings, and no amount of 

 treatment will in either case make the unfortunate creature 

 sensible. Such a dog is better put out of harm's way, for 

 all he can do is to eat, and to drink, and to sleep — he even 



