I will now give my opinion as to how a first-class Fox-terrier should be made. The head should be of fair length, not too long, but in proportion to the size of the dog. The jaw should be muscular, and the muzzle not too fine; and, of course, the nose should be black. The ears should be small, not very thin, and dropping forward, so as to keep out the dirt. The eye must be small, rather sunken, and dark, a prominent eye being objectionable, as showing Bull. The neck should be of fair length, lean and muscular; the shoulders long, fine, and sloping; and the chest deep and rather narrow; the back short and strong; and the loin slightly arched and full of muscle. A very important part is the legs. The fore legs must be straight and strong in bone, and the feet small, round, and arched, with a good thick sole. This is of much importance, as a dog with a thin sole soon gets footsore. The thighs, of course, should be muscular, and the hocks straight and well let down. The tail should be strong, and set on rather high; and the coat hard and abundant, but close and smooth. The carriage of a good Terrier should be gay and lively, and the expression of the face intelligent and good-tempered. There is one thing I want particularly to impress on readers, and that is that a Fox-terrier should in no way resemble 'a brick with the corners knocked off' or 'a Shorthorn' - a simile that has frequently been used by more than one writer on Fox-terriers. Could any one imagine an animal whose formation is less adapted for speed and endurance than a Shorthorn, unless a brick could be endowed with life? If a Fox-terrier's build had been likened to a Foxhound or a good hunter, I would have agreed; but a Shorthorn or a brick, never!"

Those who would like to further peep into the family history of the old Kennel Terriers, which Mr. Scott has so ably written about, will find plenty of information in the "Fox-terrier Stud Book," five vols. of which were edited by the late Mr. Hugh Dalziel, and published by Mr. L. Upcott Gill; while others have been produced under the direction of the Fox-terrier Club.

As we have it on the high authority of "The Sportsman's Cabinet" that at the beginning of last century the proprietors of Foxhounds were exceedingly nice in their selection of Terriers, and equally emulous upon the superiority of their qualifications, and as the desire to possess specimens of the best breeding had then taken hold of the upper classes, the moulding of the Fox-terrier into his present form may be said to have begun with the century.

The lost, or rather the unwoven, threads of Terrier genealogy have, in the preceding passages, been in part taken up by Mr. Scott from traditional lore, and in the same way those with an intimate knowledge of the past history of other of our hound kennels might throw light on the evolution of the modern Smooth Fox-terrier.

Mr. J. A. Doyle, whose knowledge of Fox-terriers and ability as a judge stand high, has followed in the lines adopted by Mr. Scott, whose lead he acknowledges in his contribution to Mr. Vero Shaw's "Book of the Dog."

Mr. Doyle refers to the early history of this dog, and in doing so he has fallen into several errors more or less material. He states that Colonel Thornton was a sportsman of the last half of the eighteenth century, and quotes an opinion that from his bitch Patch most of the white Terriers of the country were descended. Colonel Thornton was still an active sportsman in the first decade of the last century, alike in hunting, coursing, and other fields of sport; and, in fact, when, in 1802, he was winning glory among the followers of the leash, and his letters to the Earl of Darlington were in the Press, pure white Terriers were already specially recognised as one of the colours approved by Fashion. That Colonel Thornton had a partiality for the white variety seems probable, for in describing a fox-hunt in the Forete Verte he says: "My Terrier, a beautiful white dog, was also lost." Mr. Doyle is also in error in making the author of "The Sportsman's Cabinet" say that the Wire-haired Terrier was larger than the Smooth variety.

Most practical fanciers will endorse the views expressed by Mr. Scott and Mr. Doyle, that the best Terriers we now have are those possessing in greatest purity the blood of the Kennel Terrier of the early part of last century, for emulation in breeding for beauty of form and colour had been then well established, and has undoubtedly gone steadily on ever since. It is only because so much curiosity has been expressed as to the kind of dogs from which these Kennel Terriers were originally drawn that an endeavour has been made to throw any light possible on the subject.

In regard to what may be called the immediate and known roots from which our present-day Fox-terriers have sprung, personal memory of some, and knowledge gleaned from the older fanciers, come to our assistance. Mr. Doyle, from personal knowledge, describes the Cheshire and Shropshire strains, most notable of which he considers was that of Mr. Domeville Pool, a strain bred for pluck, and to match as a pack; from these came the Terriers of Mr. Stevenson, of Chester, well known some thirty odd years ago, and of this kennel most notable was Tartar, sire of Tyke and Trumps.

Mr. Doyle next endorses the opinions expressed in what he justly calls the admirable account given by "Peeping Tom" of the Belvoir and Grove strains. Old Trap, although destitute of a recorded pedigree, receives Mr. Doyle's strong praise, on the ground of the famous Terriers that trace back to him. Of this celebrated dog the Kennel Club Stud Book says: "He was believed to have some black-and-tan blood in him. Mr. German Hopkins, in an article on Fox-terriers, stated that Trap was a black-and-tan dog; but Mr. S. W. Smith, whose knowledge of the early Fox-terriers is extensive, was informed by Colonel Arkwright, of the Oakley, who owned Old Trap, that the dog was by a grand Kennel Terrier out of a handsome black-and-tan bitch owned by a villager living near the Kennels. The late Mr. Luke Turner, however, always had his doubts about Old Trap's pedigree, and believed the dog to have been sired by Tip, owned by a Leicester miller, Hitchcock by name. On the same authority we have it that the dog was noted for his courage, and that all the keepers in the vicinity bred to this dog. He believed that Arkwright's coachman or keeper put a bitch to him, and Old Trap resulted; he also remembers seeing about Leicester lots of Terriers with the distinctive type of head characteristic of Hitchcock's dog's progeny." As, however, an endeavour is made in the Fox-terrier Stud Book to make the descent of our present dogs clearer than can well be done by running comment, we need quote no further.