206 DOGS AND ALL ABOUT THEM 



stifles not turned outwards. The elbows should hang perpendicular 

 to the body, working free of the side. The Feet should be round, 

 compact, and not large. The soles hard and tough. The toes moderately 

 arched, and turned neither in nor out. Coat Should be straight, 

 flat, smooth, hard, dense, and abundant. The belly and under side 

 of the thighs should not be bare. As regards colour, white should 

 predominate ; brindle, red, or liver markings are objectionable. Other- 

 wise this point is of little or no importance. Symmetry, Size, and 

 Character The dog must present a general gay, lively, and active 

 appearance ; bone and strength in a small compass are essentials ; 

 but this must not be taken to mean that a Fox-terrier should be 

 cloggy, or in any way coarse speed and endurance must be looked 

 to as well as power, and the symmetry of the Foxhound taken as a 

 model. The terrier, like the hound, must on no account be leggy, nor 

 must he be too short in the leg. He should stand like a cleverly-made 

 hunter, covering a lot of ground, yet with a short back, as before stated. 

 He will then attain the highest degree of propelling power, together 

 with the greatest length of stride that is compatible with the length of 

 his body. Weight is not a certain criterion of a terrier's fitness for 

 his work general shape, size and contour are the main points ; and if 

 a dog can gallop and stay, and follow his fox up a drain, it matters 

 little what his weight is to a pound or so, though, roughly speaking, it 

 may be said he should not scale over twenty pounds in show condition. 

 DISQUALIFYING POINTS : Nose White, cherry, or spotted to a 

 considerable extent with either of these colours. EATS prick, tulip, 

 or rose. Mouth much overshot or much undershot. 



In order to give some idea of the extraordinary way in which 

 the Fox-terrier took the public taste, it will be necessary to 

 hark back and give a rtsumi of the principal kennels and 

 exhibitors to whom this was due. In the year in which the 

 Fox-terrier Club was formed, Mr. Fred Burbidge, at one time 

 captain of the Surrey Eleven, had the principal kennels. He 

 was the pluckiest buyer of his day, and once he fancied a dog 

 nothing stopped him till it was in his kennels. He bought 

 Nimrod, Dorcas, Tweezers, and Nettle, and with them and 

 other discriminating purchases he was very hard to beat on 

 the show-bench. Strange to say, at this time he seemed 

 unable to breed a good dog, and determined to have a clear out 

 and start afresh. A few brood bitches only were retained, and 

 the kennels moved from Champion Hill to Hunton Bridge, in 

 Hertfordshire. From thence in a few years came Bloom, 

 Blossom, Tweezers II., Hunton Baron, Hunton Bridegroom, 

 and a host of others, which spread the fame of the great 



