208 DOGS AND ALL ABOUT THEM 



her want of what is called terrier character, and others would 

 have liked her a shade smaller ; but we have still to see the 

 Fox-terrier, taken all round, that could beat her. 



As an outcross Mr. Redmond purchased Dreadnought, one 

 of the highest class dogs seen for many years, but had very 

 bad luck with him, an accident preventing him from being 

 shown and subsequently causing his early death. We must 

 not forget Duchess of Durham or Dukedom ; but to enumerate 

 all Mr. Redmond's winners it would be necessary to take the 

 catalogues of all the important shows held for the past thirty 

 years. To no one do we owe so much ; no one has made 

 such a study of the breed, reducing it almost to a science, with 

 the result that even outside his kennels no dog has any 

 chance of permanently holding his own unless he has an 

 ample supply of the blood. 



The great opponent of the Totteridge Kennel up to some 

 few years ago was unquestionably Mr. Vicary, of Newton 

 Abbot, who laid the foundation of his kennel with Vesuvian, 

 who was by Splinter, out of Kohinor, and from whom came the 

 long line of winners, Venio-Vesuvienne, Vice-Regal, Valuator, 

 Visto, and Veracity. Fierce war raged round these kennels, 

 each having its admiring and devoted adherents, until one side 

 would not look at anything but a Redmond Terrier to the 

 exclusion of the Vicary type. The Newton Abbot strain was 

 remarkable for beautiful heads and great quality, but was 

 faulty in feet and not absolute as to fronts, each of which 

 properties was a sine qua non amongst the Totteridge dogs. 

 Latter-day breeders have recognised that in the crossing of 

 the two perfection lies, and Mr. Redmond himself has not 

 hesitated to go some way on the same road. 



It is fortunate for the breed of Fox-terriers how great a 

 hold the hobby takes, and how enthusiastically its votaries 

 pursue it, otherwise we should not have amongst us men like 

 Mr. J. C. Tinne, whose name is now a household word in the 

 Fox-terrier world, as it has been any time for the past thirty 

 years. Close proximity, in those days, to Mr. Gibson at Brock- 



