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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



thirty years. Close proximity, in tliose 

 days, to Mr. Gibson at Brockenhurst made 

 him all the keener, and one of his iirst 

 terriers was a bitch of that blood by 

 Bitters. With daughters of Old Foiler he 

 did very well — to wit, Pungent, sister to 

 Dorcas, while through Terror we get Ban- 

 quet, the grandam of Despoiler. He pur- 

 chased from Mr. Redmond both Deacon 

 Diamond and Daze, each of whom was bred 

 to Spice, and produced respectively Auburn 

 and Brockenhurst Dainty ; from the latter 

 pair sprang Lottery and Worry, the 

 grandam of Tom Newcome, to whom we owe 

 Brockenliurst Agnes, Brockenhurst Dame, 

 and Dinah Morris, and consequently Adam 

 Bede and Hester Sorrel. 



It has always been 

 Mr. Tinne's principle to 

 aim at producing the 

 best terrier he could, 

 irrespective of the fads 

 of this kennel or that, 

 and his judgment has 

 been amply vindicated, 

 as the prize lists of 

 every large show will 

 testify. And to-day he 

 is the proud possessor of 

 Ch. The Sylph, who has 

 beaten every one of her 

 sex, and is considered 

 by many about the best 

 Fox-terrier ever seen. 



No name is better known or more highly 

 respected by dog owners than that of the 

 late Mr. J. A. Doyle, as a writer, breeder, 

 judge, or exhibitor of Fox-terriers. Whilst 

 breeding largely from his own stock, he was 

 ever on the look-out for a likely outcross. 

 He laid great store on terrier character, and 

 was a stickler for good coats ; a point much 

 neglected in the present-day dog. 



Amongst the smaller kennels is that of 

 Mr. Reeks, now mostly identified with 

 Oxonian and that dog's produce, but he 

 will always be remembered as the breeder 

 of that beautiful terrier, Avon Minstrel. 

 Mr. .\rnold Gillett has had a good share of 

 fortune's favours, as the Ridgewood dogs 

 testify ; whilst the Messrs. Powell, Castle, 



MR. J. C. TINNE'S CH. 

 BY VERDERER KIRRY 



Glynn, Dale, and Crosthwaite have all 

 written their names on the pages of Fox- 

 terrier history. Ladies have ever been 

 supporters of the breed, and no one more 

 prominently so than Mrs. Bennett Edwards, 

 who through Duke of Doncaster, a son 

 of Durham, has founded a kennel which at 

 times is almost invincible, and which still 

 shelters such grand terriers as Doncaster, 

 Dominie, Dodger, Dauphine, and many 

 others well known to fame. Mrs. J. H. 

 Brown, too, as the owner of Captain Double, 

 a terrier which has won, and deservedly, 

 more prizes than any Fox-terrier now or in 

 the past, must not be omitted. 



Whether the present Fox-terrier is as 

 good, both on the score 

 of utility and appear- 

 ance, as his predecessors 

 is a question which has 

 many times been asked, 

 and as many times de- 

 cided in the negative as 

 well as in the aftirma- 

 tivc. It would be idle 

 to pretend that a great 

 many of the dogs now 

 seen on the show bench 

 are fitted to do the 

 work Nature intended 

 them for, as irrespec- 

 tive of their make and 

 shape they are so over- 

 sized as to preclude the 

 possibility of going to ground in any average- 

 sized earth. 



This question of size is one tliat must 

 sooner or later be tackled in some practical 

 way by the Fox-terrier Club, unless we 

 are to see a race of giants in the next few 

 generations. Their owtq standard gives 

 20 lb. — a very liberal maximum ; but 

 there are dogs several pounds heavier con- 

 stantly winning prizes at shows, and con- 

 sequently being bred from, with the result 

 which we see. There are many little dogs, 

 and good ones, to be seen, but as long as 

 the judges favour the big ones these hold 

 no chance, and as it is far easier to pro- 

 duce a good big one than a good little one, 

 breeders are encouraged to use sires who 



THE SYLPH 



CREGEEN. 



