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thirty years. Close proximity, in those 
days, to Mr. Gibson at Brockenhurst made 
him all the keener, and one of his first 
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 
Brockenhurst 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. Arnold Gillett has had a good share of 
fortune’s favours, as the Ridgewood dogs 
testify ; whilst the Messrs. Powell, Castle, 
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OF THE DOG. 
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 affirma- 
tive. 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 that 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 own 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 
