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setting her free. This terrier bred a number of 

 good ones, but she would never allow her puppies 

 to be looked at until they were a week old, putting 

 her head out of her box and growling savagely 

 if any one approached ; but after that time she 

 would come running to meet you and invite 

 inspection. 



Of her puppies, Redtop and Rosa I have already 

 mentioned, and among others of her progeny were 

 Arno, Antic, and Amora by King Pan, the last 

 being as good as her mother. With King Pan, 

 a heavily marked little dog, I took first prize at 

 Sherborne in 1885, and he being claimed by Mr 

 Guest, ran with the B. V.H. for some years. Amber 

 also bred Trojan, familiarly called Johnnie, by the 

 Sealeyham Tartar (late Kanter), a big white dog 

 that always gives a good account of himself, and 

 will crunch up a hedgehog as though it was 

 a rabbit. 



Two terriers should never be allowed to go into 

 an earth at the same time, as if they do they are 

 very likely to mistake one another for the enemy, 

 and a desperate fight between them may be the 

 consequence. I have known a dog, slipped in be- 

 hind another, inflict shocking injury to the back of 

 the first one, in his endeavour to get past him and 

 reach the foe. After a terrier has been to earth 

 he should be rubbed over if wet, and be allowed to 

 run about to warm himself A little sweet-oil 

 poured over any bites he may have will prevent 

 blood-poisoning ; but on no account should he go 



