THE FOX-TERRIER. 85 



ignored altogether, no class being assigned to him, owing to the 

 fact that the breed, though existing in certain foxhound-kennels, 

 was not known beyond them. Even at the great London Inter- 

 national Show of May 30, 1 863, no class for this breed was made ; 

 and, as far as I recollect, no fox-terrier appeared among the 

 " white- smooth-haired terriers," as was the case at the Birmingham 

 Show of 1 862, when the afterwards celebrated "Jock" took the first 

 prize in that class, though not, strictly speaking, conforming to its 

 requirements either in colour or other points. In 1863 Mr. 

 John Walker of Wrexham, to whom I have already alluded, and 

 Mr. Cornelius Tongue (" Cecil "), impressed upon the Birmingham 

 Committee the importance of the breed, and ever since that time 

 it has been growing into the notice both of the promoters of our 

 shows and of the general public, so that it is by no means un- 

 common to find the fox-terrier classes making up a fifth or even 

 a quarter of a whole show in point of numbers, and drawing to 

 their benches fully one-half of the spectators. 



As this breed thus crept into the favour of the public from a 

 state of obscurity, it was to be expected that opinions on its size 

 and shape should vary according to the point of view from which 

 it was examined. Thus the hunting man said, " I must have a 

 dog small enough to enter an earth; not too savage, because I want 

 him to bark rather than to bite, for foxes are too precious in my 

 eyes to be killed under ground. My limit in point of weight 

 is therefore 16 lbs." "Oh!" says the young Oxonian in reply, 

 " I don't want anything of the kind. What I require is a dog 

 which will follow me on horseback, if I desire a companion in 

 my rides, without being outpaced, and will hunt rabbits for me 

 all day long. My dog should be 20 lbs. at least." Now who is 

 to decide between these two fox-terrier fanciers ? The hunting 

 man says, " Well and good ! I don't object to your dog, but he 



