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MISS HATFEILD'Ss MORDEN BOMBARDMENT, MORDEN BLUSTERER, 
CH. DUSKY SIREN, CH. MORDEN BULLSEYE. 
Photograph by Reveley, Wantage. 
CHAPTER XXXV. 
THE WIRE-HAIR FOX-TERRIER. 
BY WALTER S. GLYNN. 
* Once beasts with men held kindly speech, 
The woodman and the oak would parley, 
The farmer seasonably preach 
To nodding ears of wheat and barley. 
Ah me! 
That grammar is forgot, 
And narrower ouy modern lore is ,; 
No tongues have now the polyglot 
Save Litere Humaniores. 
* So access to your little brain 
I only get by winding channels ; 
What mysteries to you were plain 
Had I the language of the kennels.” 
Law’s ODE TO THE FOX-TERRIER RAQUET. 
N dealing with this variety of the Fox- 
terrier the writer is in some respects 
at a disadvantage, though in others, 
no doubt, he is favoured in that the com- 
panion variety has been so ably dealt with 
by such capable hands, it being conse- 
quently necessary to deal only cursorily with 
many points. 
Mr. O’Connell, in his treatise on the smooth 
variety, comprehensively inquires into the 
origin of the Fox-terrier, and he no doubt 
has chapter and verse for all he says, though 
in reality it will be seen that he himself 
does not state exactly from what or how 
many breeds this very popular and exten- 
sively owned variety of the dog originally 
sprang. 
In mentioning the breeds which he 
believes have been employed for this purpose 
he, however, omits to mention one which 
had undoubtedly a great deal to do with 
the evolution of the Fox-terrier. There can 
be no doubt that the old black-and-tan wire- 
hair terrier was England’s first sporting 
