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Hunton strain. When the kennel was dispersed at Mr. 

 Burbidge's untimely death in 1892, the dogs, 130 lots in all, 

 were sold by auction and realised 1,800 ; Hunton Tartar 

 fetched 135, Justice 84, Bliss jo, and Scramble 65. 



Messrs. A. H. and C. Clarke were at this time quietly found- 

 ing a kennel, which perhaps has left its mark more indelibly 

 on the breed than any before or since. Brockenhurst Rally 

 was a most fortunate purchase from his breeder, Mr. Herbert 

 Peel, and was by Brockenhurst Joe from a Bitters bitch, as 

 from this dog came Roysterer and Ruler, their dam being 

 Jess, an old Turk bitch ; and from Rollick by Buff was bred 

 Ruse and Ransome. Roysterer was the sire of Result, by 

 many considered the best Fox-terrier dog of all time ; and 

 Result's own daughter Rachel was certainly the best bitch 

 of her day. All these terriers had intense quality and style, 

 due for the most part to inbreeding. Very little new blood 

 was introduced, with an inevitable result ; and by degrees 

 the kennel died out. 



No history of the Fox-terrier could be complete without 

 mention of Mr. Francis Redmond and his kennel, going back, 

 as it does, to the Murchison and Luke Turner period, and 

 being still to-day the most prominent one in existence. We 

 can date his earlier efforts from his purchase of Deacon 

 Nettle, the dam of Deacon Ruby ; Dusty was the dam of 

 Ch. Diamond Dust ; Dickon he had from Luke Turner, and in 

 this dog we have one of the foundation-stones of the Fox- 

 terrier stud-book, as he was the sire of Splinter, who in his 

 turn was the sire of Vesuvian. 



Mr. Redmond's next great winners were D'Orsay and 

 Dominie, two sterling good terriers, the former of which was the 

 sire of Dame D'Orsay, who, bred to Despoiler, produced Dame 

 Fortune, the mother of Donna Fortuna, whose other parent 

 was Dominie. Donna Fortuna, considered universally the 

 best specimen of a Fox-terrier ever produced, had from the 

 first a brilliant career, for though fearlessly shown on all 

 occasions she never knew defeat. Some took exception to 



