178 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



of hounds in full cry a smooth black-and-tan is 

 represented following them as fast as he can 

 put legs to the ground. A portrait of this 

 terrier I am able to give, as Miss Guest has 

 been good enough to make a sketch of him 

 for me. 



The black-and-tan terrier also appears in an old 

 picture at Badminton of a lawn meet in front of 

 the house ; and we know that the Dukes of Beau- 

 fort had these terriers preserved carefully for 

 many years. In ' The British Sportsman ' also, 

 published in 1812, a black-and-tan terrier by 

 Samuel Howitt is shown with prick ears and 

 with a rat in his mouth. 



We know, too, that in the early days of dog- 

 shows some of our fox-terriers had black-and-tan 

 blood in their veins. Old Jock's sire, for instance, 

 was a black-and-tan, and Old Trap was said to 

 have a similar pedigree ; while I have heard the 

 Rev. J. Russell say that the foundation of his 

 kennel was a black-and-tan dog and a little 

 white terrier named Trump. 



My own earliest recollection of the breed is 

 of one Gyp, which was brought to us when 

 children by a keeper, who had found her in a 

 trap on one of the heath commons in Hampshire. 

 Gyp was a rich black-and-tan, with a little white 

 on her chest, and she had a smooth thick coat, 

 prick ears, and a long bushy tail, which she always 

 carried down. She was a very shy dog, but from 

 the fact of my having nursed her and cured her 



