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troubled with diseases. Horses and cattle like 

 to have them about, and rats and weasels stay 

 away. On the sporting side he finds them help- 

 ful on 'coons and rabbits. They soon learn to 

 trail quite a little, but that is not their field of 

 usefulness. They are good on 'coons because, 

 while they are weak on the trailing side, they 

 are much quicker than hounds in preventing the 

 escape of the game after a tree has fallen, or 

 when for any other reason the 'coon has been 

 compelled to take the ground. When rabbits are 

 numerous enough to be troublesome, fox terriers 

 are effective. They can start more rabbits than 

 can beagles or large hounds ; and if a man knows 

 how to hunt the American hare and how to sta- 

 tion himself, he would rather have a dog which 

 starts game quickly than one which trails faith- 

 fully. As to squirrels, my friend says that the 

 fox terrier is the best squirrel dog he ever saw. 



We have, therefore, a legitimate ground on 

 which to class these popular little dogs as mem- 

 bers of the American sporting class. 



There have been four fortresses of the fox 

 terrier fancy. First came the Blemton (Mr. 

 August Belmont) ; then the Warren (Mr. Ruther- 

 ford), the Cairnsmuir (Mr. Carnochan), and the 

 Norfolk (Mr. Gooderham). These first three 

 have been around New York and the last at 

 Toronto, Canada. From these great nurseries 



