74 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



Amber, a wire - haired terrier, bred from Mr 

 Kussell's celebrated old Devonshire strain, and a 

 great-granddaughter of his famous old Tip, would 

 face any wet drain, and would swim for miles. She 

 would go for anything that moved, and once even 

 pinned a ploughshare that squeaked, though she 

 had a narrow escape of having her jaw broken 

 before the thing could be stopped. One season 

 she bolted a large fox from a drain under the road 

 near Thornhill, and hanging tight to his brush, 

 she was dragged over a field and to ground in a 

 rabbit-earth before the hounds could get up. She 

 quickly had the fox out again, and he made a meal 

 for the eager pack outside. 



On another occasion she came out of a drain 

 near Holtham so close to her quarry that she 

 collared him in a ditch, and hounds dashing in on 

 the top of them, poor Amber lost half of one of her 

 ears in the fray. This, however, did not make her 

 release her hold of the fox's head, to which she 

 clung so persistently that the huntsman at last 

 cut it off and let her have it. 



Amber weighed 16 lb., and had a tan head and 

 hard broken coat, and a very keen varmint ex- 

 pression. She paid great attention to everything 

 that was said to her, and used to turn her head 

 from side to side as she listened, evidently trying 

 to understand. She would get very angry at any 

 restraint when game was on foot, and any one 

 holding her would generally get a sharp nip for 

 his pains, which mostly had the desired eifect of 



