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always declared he was the only dog he ever had or knew that could draw 

 the main earths near Belvoir Castle. 



"Cooper took great pains in keeping the breed pure during his time 

 and got several of the old black-and-tan sort, mentioned before, from Mr. 

 William Singleton of Caythorpe, near Grantham, a noted breeder of them, 

 and he kept them free from bull for forty years. This strengthens my 

 belief that the white, black-and-tan terrier of the present day is, or should be, 

 descended from the old black-and-tan. I cannot trace the present breed 

 of Belvoir terriers further back than Tom Goosey's day, over forty years ago. 

 His Tyrant was a noted dog, and he afterward became the property of Sir 

 Thomas Whichcote, who has kept the breed pure. 



"Jack Morgan has been, I believe, chiefly instrumental in bringing the 

 <jrove terriers to the perfection they attained, for it is beyond dispute that 

 the Grove has turned out two as good, or better, than anj^hing of the 

 present day. These are Old Jock and Grove Nettle. Jock was out of 

 the Grove Pepper, by a black-and-tan dog, Captain Percy William's Jock ; 

 but I do not quite know the correct pedigree of Nettle. I believe she was by 

 a dog belonging to Mr. J. B. Hodgson, M. F. H., and out of Gimlet, by 

 old Grove Tartar out of Rose, by Grove Trickster out of Nettle, by a Grove 

 dog out of Mr. Foljambe's old Cambridge Vic. There was a Nettle bred 

 in that way, and she was either Grove Nettle or Ben Morgan's Nettle, but 

 I see the Kennel Club gives Grove Nettle as by Grove Tartar out of Sting." 



Those who trace pedigrees through the English stud book should note 

 in the volume which has a registration of Belvoir Joe that that is not the 

 celebrity which sired Belgrave Joe. The pedigree of the proper Belvoir 

 Joe is as given above by Mr. Scott. We only reach him nowadays through 

 his son, Belgrave Joe, who was out of Branson's White Vic, and her pedi- 

 gree is seldom given correctly, there being several Vies, all owned by Bran- 

 son. White Vic was sired by 'Branson's Tartar, who was by a dog called 

 Ruler out of Fairy, belonging to Head, the huntsman at Donnington Park; 

 Ruler belonged to Mr. Moore, who got him from his breeder, Mr. Hedges. 

 The dam of White Vic was a white bitch with black markings named Vic, 

 ovmed by Branson, and she was by his Twister out of his white bitch Vic, 

 which he got from the keeper to Sir Gilbert Heathcote. Twister was a 

 white dog with a tan head that Branson sold to the Quom. 



Belgrave Joe sired a very large number of excellent terriers, and we 

 remember seeing him at his owner's, Mr. Luke Turner, Richmond House, 



