204 DOGS AND ALL ABOUT THEM 



however, well established that the former owned his sire, also 

 called Jock, and that his dam, Grove Pepper, was the property 

 of Morgan. He first came before the public at the Birming- 

 ham show in 1862, where, shown by Mr. Wootton, of Notting- 

 ham, he won first prize. He subsequently changed hands 

 several times, till he became the property of Mr. Murchison, 

 in whose hands he died in the early 'seventies. He was 

 exhibited for the last time at the Crystal Palace in 1870, and 

 though then over ten years old won second to the same 

 owner's Trimmer. At his best he was a smart, well-baianced 

 terrier, with perhaps too much daylight under him, and want- 

 ing somewhat in jaw power ; but he showed far less of the 

 Bull-terrier type than did his contemporary Tartar. 



This dog's antecedents were very questionable, and his 

 breeder is given as Mr. Stevenson, of Chester, most of whose 

 dogs were Bull-terriers pure and simple, save that they had 

 drop ears and short sterns, being in this respect unlike old 

 Trap, whose sire is generally supposed to have been a Black 

 and Tan Terrier. This dog came from the Oakley Kennels, and 

 he was supposed to have been bred by a miller at Leicester. 

 However questionable the antecedents of these three terriers 

 may have been, they are undoubtedly the progenitors of our 

 present strain, and from them arose the kennels that we 

 have to-day. 



Mention has been made of Mr. Murchison, and to him we owe 

 in a great measure the start in popularity which since the 

 foundation of his large kennel the Fox-terrier has enjoyed. 

 Mr. Murchison 's chief opponents in the early 'seventies 

 were Mr. Gibson, of Brockenhurst, with his dogs Tyke and 

 Old Foiler ; Mr. Luke Turner, of Leicester, with his Belvoir 

 strain, which later gave us Ch. Brockenhurst Joe, Ch. Olive 

 and her son, Ch. Spice ; Mr. Theodore Bassett, Mr. Allison, 

 and, a year or so later, Mr. Frederick Burbidge, the Messrs. 

 Clarke, Mr. Tinne, Mr. Francis Redmond, and Mr. Vicary. 

 About this time a tremendous impetus was given to the breed 

 by the formation, in 1876, of the Fox-terrier Club, which 



