THE WIRE-HAIR FOX-TERRIER. 
terrier, and it seems hard to understand 
whence comes the wire-hair jacket in the 
one variety under notice, unless among his 
numerous progenitors there was a dog simi- 
larly blessed in this respect. The black-and- 
tan mentioned by Mr. O’Connell must be 
assumed to be the old Manchester Terrier, a 
smooth-coated dog of quite another stamp, 
and if this be so none of the breeds men- 
tioned by him could be responsible for a 
wire-hair jacket, though it may well be they 
would be capable of producing a smooth 
Fox-terrier. 
The wire-hair Fox-terrier is, with the 
exception of its coat, identical with the 
smooth Fox-terrier—full brother in fact to 
him. The two varieties are much interbred, 
and several litters in consequence include 
representatives of both; and not only this, 
but it is quite a frequent occurrence to get 
a smooth puppy from wire-hair parents, 
although for some generations neither of 
the parents may have had any smooth cross 
in their pedigrees. 
The smooth variety has always, apparently 
from the very beginning, had an advantage 
over his wire-haired brother, in that he has 
been a rich man’s dog, whereas his brother 
CH. SYLVAN RESULT 
NOTTS——ENCLOSURE. 
MR. T. J. STEPHENS’ 
BY CH. CACKLEY OF 
has undoubtedly been of more plebeian 
ownership ; the one, an aristocrat, almost 
a parlour dog, as compared with the other, 
who has had to rough it, and has lived a 
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life nearer akin to that of the pitman’s 
“tyke.” Fabulous sums have for many 
years frequently been paid for specimens 
of the Fox-terrier, so long as their coats 
MR. GEORGE RAPER’S CH. ST. ANN’S PRIMROSE 
BY POULTON PLANET——BECKSIDE BEAUTY. 
were smooth. He has had every chance ; 
his popularity has been tremendous. Mil- 
lionaires, successful merchants, people in 
the higher walks of the dog “ Fancy ” have 
ever aspired to own him, have always 
fancied him more than his somewhat despised 
brother, and some of his chief owners—even 
at the present day—would become seriously 
ill, if they awoke one fine day and found a 
wire-hair terrier in their kennels, somehow 
or other bred by themselves. 
This contempt for the subject of this 
chapter is of course all nonsense ; the wire- 
hair is in every way as good a companion, 
as sporting and lovable as the smooth, and 
if properly kept is certainly a smarter- 
looking dog, He has quietly plodded on, 
and though until recently no great prices 
have been paid for him, no great amount of 
brains has been employed on his behalf, 
and he has not been so richly or aristocratic- 
ally owned, yet if the truth will out, he is 
in better state to-day than his more favoured 
relative ; as a whole he has more all-round 
excellence, and it will surprise no one if in 
