134 THE DOGS OF THE BEITISH ISLANDS. 



CHAPTEE III. 



THE FOX TERRIER (SMOOTH AND ROUGH) AND THE 

 DACHSHUND. 



THE SMOOTH FOX TERRIER. 



EOM the very commencement of foxhunting in this country, small terriers 

 were kept at each of the various kennels, for the purpose of bolting the 

 fox from his earth when run to ground by the hounds. Originally these 

 dogs were for the most part black and tan in colour; but from this 

 cause they were so frequently mistaken for a fox when drawing a covert, 

 that they were bred white or pied. 



The dogs used for bolting foxes by some of the most famous masters of hounds 

 and their families for generations were similar to the old English terrier, and were 

 many of them white, slightly wire-haired, and with no more of the bulldog in them 

 than in the Italian greyhound, that cross making them so savage as to kill rather 

 than bolt the fox ; they had plenty of pluck ; their noses were sharp, and they were 

 small enough to go to ground wherever a fox or badger could go indeed, they 

 would " lay on " either, if they could not bolt them, till they were dug out. A 

 terrier was a thoroughbred animal per se, but it could only be called a fox terrier 

 when fit to be used for the bolting of a fox. 



About forty years ago, Sir Watkin Wynn and Mr. Foljambe were famous for 

 their breeds of fox terriers. These strains closely resembled each other, and were 

 short-headed, full in the eye, with fair stop, and what would be called well chiselled 

 out under the eye. They were remarkably strong indeed, rather inclined to be 

 cobby and bull-necked, with very short straight legs. They were particularly wide 

 sprung in their ribs and broad in the brisket, short-backed, light in the hind 

 quarters, and generally with the stern carried too high. Their colour was invariably 

 white, with red ears or patch, and often a spot in the centre between the ears. 

 The coat was very thick, and somewhat coarse. Mr. Ffrance, of Cheshire, had 

 another breed, which were very different, being rather leggy, with fine light oval 

 bone ; and they had a sharp foxy face, showing more of the Italian greyhound style, 

 with small eye and fine coat. 



After a time the Badworth blood was crossed with the Wynnstay, the result 

 being a coarser dog altogether, with black ears or spot on the head. In those days 

 a black and tan headed fox terrier was never seen. The late Duke of Rutland is 

 said to have used some of his black and tan terriers to cross with the Belvoir 

 terriers, and so produced the coloured head so much coveted in the present day ; but 

 the deep red is the original Foljambe and Wynnstay colour. Jack Morgan's dogs 



