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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



Values of Points. 



Head and ears 15 



Neck . 5 



Shoulders and chest 10 



Back and loins 10 



Hindquarters 15 



Stern 5 



Legs and feet 15 



Coat . .... f ... 10 



Symmetry, size, and character . . 15 



Grand total 100 



Disqualifying Points. 



1. Nose white, cherry, or spotted to a con- 

 siderable extent with either of these colours. 



2. Ears prick, tulip, or rose. 



3. Mouth much overshot or much undershot. 



MR. F. REDMOND'S CH. DAME FORTUNE. 

 FROM THE PAINTING By ARTHUR WARDLE. 



In order to give some idea of the extra- 

 ordinary way in which the Fox-terrier 

 took the public taste, it will be necessary 

 to hark back and give a resume of the 

 principal kennels and exhibitors to whom 

 this was due. In the year in which the Fox- 

 terrier Club was formed, Mr. Fred Bur- 

 bidge, 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 deter- 



mined 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 

 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 70, and Scramble 65. 

 Messrs. A. H. and C. Clarke were at this 

 time quietly founding a kennel, 

 which perhaps has left its mark 

 more indelibly on the breed than 

 any before or since. Brockenhurst 

 Rally was a most fortunate pur- 

 chase 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 con- 

 sidered 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, a very distinct loss to 

 the breed in general, as, with judicious 

 outside selection, the Messrs. Clarke could 

 have been as invincible to-day as in the 

 past. 



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 



