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MISS HATFEiLDS MORDEN BOMBARDMENT, MORDEN BLUSTERER, 

 CH. DUSKY SIREN, CH. MORDEN BULLSEYE. 



Pholocnifli by Rcveley, ll'.i"/.ij.'f. 



CHAPTER XXXV. 

 THE WIKE-HAIR FOX-TKRRIER. 



BY WALTER S. GLYNN. 



Once beasts tenth men held kindly sfyeech, 



The ii'oodman and the oak looiild parley, 

 The farmer seasonably preach 



To nodding ears of wheat and barley. 

 Ah me! That grammar is f orient. 



And narrower our modern lore is; 

 No tongues have now the polyglot 



Save Literw Hnmaniores. 



■ 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 tlie 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 

 sjirang. 



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 



