THE ROUGH FOX-TERRIER. 87 
knowledge, having myself possessed and seen many specimens of 
it fully as long ago. The Rev. John Russell in the West of 
England was long famous for his strain of rough terriers, so 
closely resembling the modern dogs exhibited by Mr. Sanderson, 
Mr. Carrick, and Mr. Lyndsay Hogg as to be inseparable by any 
ordinary test. It is true that the ears may not have complied with 
modern requirements, because they were invariably cropped, and 
I never saw one with full ears. Mr. Radcliffe’s (Shropshire) breed 
of rough terriers certainly had tulip ears, and on that account 
were refused prizes at the London and Birmingham shows ten 
years ago, perfect as they were in every other point. For these 
reasons I cannot positively assert that the modern rough fox- 
terrier is identical with the old-fashioned dog known in Eng- 
land as the Scotch terrier, but in all other respects he closely 
resembles him. 
The rough fox-terrier may be regarded in all respects as similar 
to his smooth brother, with the exception of his coat, which on 
the body and legs should be about twice the length of that on the 
smooth dog, with the addition of a thick under-pile of a woolly 
nature, and furnished, like that of the otter-hound, with a certain 
amount of oil, secreted by the glands of the skin, so as to resist 
the action of water. Mr. Carrick, the Master of the Carlisle 
Otter-hounds, purchased Mr. Sanderson’s “Venture” from Mr. 
Wootton, who had bought the whole team in 1873, and has used 
him since that time with his hounds, and also as a stud-dog for 
improving his old breed of terriers, in which capacity he has been 
most useful. In the water his coat is said to stand exposure quite 
as well as the otter-hound’s; and for those who want remarkably 
hardy dogs, without doubt the rough fox-terrier is better adapted 
than the smooth, who is often furnished with a soft silky coat 
which admits the rain to the skin almost in a worse manner than 
if it was bare. On the jaws a slight beard only is considered to 
be the correct thing, and in this point perhaps the modern dog is 
not exactly like the old-fashioned one, who had certainly a stronger 
and somewhat longer beard in most cases, but this difference is 
not enough to constitute a new and distinct breed. As far as my 
knowledge goes (and I have seen all the first-prize takers hitherto 
exhibited), the rough fox-terrier of the present day does not show 
