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Miss HATFEILD'S MORDEN BOMBARDMENT, MORDEN BLUSTERER, 

 CH. DUSKY SIREN, CH. MORDEN BULLSEYE. 



Photograph by Revc'.ey, Wantage. 



CHAPTER XXXV. 

 THE WIRE-HAIR FOX-TERRIER. 



BY WALTER S. GLYNN. 



" Once beasts with men held kindly speech, 



The woodman and the oak would parley, 

 The farmer seasonably preach 



To nodding ears of wheat and barley. 

 Ah me ! That grammar is forgot, 



And narrower our modern lore is; 

 No tongues have now the polyglot 



Save Literce Humaniores. 



" So access to your little brain 



I only get by winding channels ; 

 What mysteries to you were plain 



Had I the language of the kennels." 



LAW'S ODE TO THE FOX-TERRIER RAQUET. 



IN dealing with this variety of the Fox- 

 terrier the writer is in some respects 

 at a disadvantage, though in others, 

 no doubt, he is favoured in that the com- 

 panion variety has been so ably dealt with 

 by such capable hands, it being conse- 

 quently necessary to deal only cursorily with 

 many points. 



Mr. O'Connell, in his treatise on the smooth 

 variety, comprehensively inquires into the 

 origin of the Fox-terrier, and he no doubt 

 has chapter and verse for all he says, though 



in reality it will be seen that he himself 

 does not state, exactly from what or how 

 many breeds this very popular and exten- 

 sively owned variety of the dog originally 

 sprang. 



In mentioning the breeds which he 

 believes have been employed for this purpose 

 he, however, omits to mention one which 

 had undoubtedly a great deal to do with 

 the evolution of the Fox-terrier. There can 

 be no doubt that the old black-and-tan wire- 

 hair terrier was England's first sporting 



