Mr. W. W. Aspinall 41 



Muscular quarters, hocks low and bent, 

 Tail thick, and carried as if they meant 

 Business when they are called on, 



"Forelegs very straight, not bony outside, 

 Chest giving heart-room, but must not be wide, 



With coat close and dense, and a hard one, 

 Then I think you will have one to gallop and stay 

 Through plough, cold, or wet to the end of the clay, 

 And one you have cause to be proud on." 



When only in his teens Mr. Aspinall started in Fox-terriers by 

 the purchase of a son and daughter of Old Jock from Tom Wootton. 



I wish to correct an "error about the above "Description of a Fox- 

 terrier." I find it was written in a competition for a prize of ^5, 

 and was awarded second prize, and was published in some of the 

 sporting papers of the time a fact I had forgotten. He was one 

 of the original members of the Fox-terrier Club. 



Mr. Aspinall was educated at Cheltenham College, and in his 

 younger days used to hunt a great deal with the Cotswold Hounds, 

 and, later, with the Cheshire, the Queen's Stag-hounds, the Old 

 Berkeley, and the Windsor Drag-hounds. 



In his official capacity I have been frequently brought in contact 

 with Mr. Aspinall, and have found him watchful and attentive to 

 the interests of the important body he so long represented, but 

 a courteous and reasonable gentleman, to the public, with whom 

 he had so much to do; and I have always thought he filled a 

 somewhat difficult position with considerable tact and success, and 

 enjoyed the friendship and esteem of a great number of Doggy People. 



I consider the accompanying portrait a good likeness. 



Mr. L. P. C. Astley 



I THINK I heard this gentleman say that he considered, "on an 

 average, he judged dogs, somewhere or other, about four days a 

 week throughout the year." The man who can beat that must 

 have a good record ! 



I have done in my time as much judging as many of the non- 

 professionals, and I am passionately fond of dogs ; but I think if 

 I was officiating as judge more than two hundred times in the year, 

 I should begin to tire of them. 



Mr. Astley was originally a chemist, but for the last thirty 



