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tJie terrier, having a decided advantage from the thickness of the cover, 

 continued catching at his haunches. . . . After he had been tormented 

 for some time by Vixen, he came to an opening in the woods, but in crossing 

 some deep ruts he fell in and could not recover himself. The Norman 

 hound and three others rushed in and threw him on his back. He snatched, 

 but they seized, him by the throat and back, while Vixen had good hold of 

 his haunch." The wolf proved to be a four-year-old, with a splendid 

 mouth of teeth, and while one of the English hounds had lost nearly the 

 whole of one ear and another was cut about the face. Vixen got off with 

 a bloody nose, "but she did not seem to mind it." No description is given 

 of Vixen, but the presumption is that she was one of the smooth terriers of 

 his own breeding and a descendant of Pitch. 



The best contribution on the fox terrier of the first half of the last 

 century is what the late T. H. Scott wrote under the name of "Peeping Tom" 

 in The Country, a London paper that was given up twenty years ago. Mr. 

 Scott was conceded to be the best-informed man of the many writers on 

 early terriers of history, having a vast amount of personal information on 

 the subject. We quote from what he wrote in 1880, and the dates he gives 

 should be calculated from that time: 



"Some of us will, I daresay, remember the old black-and-tan English 

 terrier — not in any way resembling the whip-tailed, smooth-coated and 

 pencil-toed black-and-tan of the present day, but a dog of very similar ap- 

 pearance to the Old Jock and Old Trap type of fox terrier. My father has 

 in his possession a painting of a noted terrier that belonged to his grand- 

 father. This dog was a black-and-tan, that is to say, black, with a consider- 

 able quantity of light tan, and white breast. This dog had drop ears, and 

 in all other respects except colour would have held his own on a show bench 

 at the present day. I believe there is no doubt that there was an equally 

 old breed of white English terriers of the same character, and it was by cross- 

 ing these two sorts that the colour of our modern kennel terriers was pro- 

 duced. The black-and-tan was, from its colour, difficult to keep in view, 

 and mixed colours looked more uniform with the hounds. Till very re- 

 cently the Duke of Beaufort has kept up a breed of black-and-tan fox terriers, 

 and excellent dogs they are. 



"Treadwell, the huntsman of the Old Berkshire, has had several good 

 terriers, notably Tip, and they were descended from a black-and-tan dog 

 he had with the Cottesmore, twenty-five years ago, called Charley. This 



