340 THE NEW 
Values of Points. 
Head and ears Gea Sy Eo ey ORS 
INGGK- 4. og Ge Beil the oh oe 5 
Shoulders and chest & Se BAI 
Back and loins . . . . . . 10 
Hindquarters . . . . . . . IS 
Stem . . . e. Coe Wes 8 5 
Legs and feet ee Oe ee Re Se BS 
Coat i kl: Pah a ae) ae a> Ge, “HO 
Symmetry, size, and character » 15 
Grand total . 
Disqualifying Points. 
1. Nose—white, cherry, or spotted to a con- 
siderable extent with either of these colours. 
2. Ears—prick, tulip, or rose. 
3. Mouth—much overshot or much undershot. 
BOOK OF THE DOG. 
mined to have a clear out and start afresh. 
A few brood bitches only were retained, 
and the kennels moved from Champion 
Hill to Hunton Bridge, in Hertfordshire. 
From thence in a few years came Bloom, 
Blossom, Tweezers II., Hunton Baron, 
Hunton Bridegroom, and a host of others, 
which spread the fame of the great 
Hunton strain. 
When the kennel was dispersed at Mr. 
Burbidge’s untimely death in 1892, the dogs, 
130 lots in all, were sold by auction and 
realised £1,800; Hunton Tartar fetched £135, 
Justice £84, Bliss £70, and Scramble £65. 
Messrs. A. H. and C. Clarke were at this 
time quietly founding a kennel, 
which perhaps has left its mark 
more indelibly on the breed than 
any before or since. Brockenhurst 
Rally was a most fortunate pur- 
chase from his breeder, Mr. Herbert 
Peel, and was by Brockenhurst Joe 
from a Bitters bitch, as from this 
dog came Roysterer and Ruler, their 
dam being Jess, an old Turk bitch; 
and from Rollick by Buff was bred 
Ruse and Ransome. Roysterer was 
the sire of Result, by many con- 
sidered the best Fox-terrier dog of 
all time ; and Result’s own daughter 
MR. F. REDMOND’S CH. DAME FORTUNE. 
FROM THE PAINTING BY ARTHUR WARDLE. 
In order to give some idea of the extra- 
ordinary way in which the Fox-terrier 
took the public taste, it will be necessary 
to hark back and give a résumé of the 
principal kennels and exhibitors to whom 
this was due. In the year in which the Fox- 
terrier Club was formed, Mr. Fred Bur- 
bidge, at one time captain of the Surrey 
Eleven, had the principal kennels. He was 
the pluckiest buyer of his day, and once he 
fancied a dog nothing stopped him till it 
was in his kennels. He bought Nimrod, 
Dorcas, Tweezers, and Nettle, and with 
them and other discriminating purchases 
he was very hard to beat on the show-bench. 
Strange to say, at this time he seemed 
unable to breed a good dog, and deter- 
Rachel was certainly the best bitch 
of her day. All these terriers had 
intense quality and style, due for 
the most part to inbreeding. Very 
little new blood was introduced, with an 
inevitable result; and by degrees the 
kennel died out, a very distinct loss to 
the breed in general, as, with judicious 
outside selection, the Messrs. Clarke could 
have been as invincible to-day as in the 
past. 
No history of the Fox-terrier could be 
complete without mention of Mr. Francis 
Redmond and his kennel, going back, as 
it does, to the Murchison and Luke Turner 
period, and being still to-day the most 
prominent one in existence. We can date 
his earlier efforts from his purchase of 
Deacon Nettle, the dam of Deacon Ruby ; 
Dusty was the dam of Ch. Diamond Dust ; 
Dickon he had from Luke Turner, and in 
