The position of the Club, it may be taken, was that they accepted the Fox-terrier inherited from their predecessors, in his general characteristics, and framed a standard to which they wished him to be bred, and which should ensure a greater degree of uniformity in general appearance, including enhanced beauty and more style, as modern taste recognises those qualities.

Some years ago those two famous breeders Mr. F. Redmond and Mr. A. H. Clarke competed against each other with a team of half a dozen, submitting them to the judgment of Mr. J. A. Doyle, who valued each dog's merits on the point system. The competition did not deal with the general merits of the dogs, but only with certain special points - viz. neck, shoulders, and fore legs, which had formed a subject of discussion. Whatever the result arrived at in the particular case quoted, the practicability of judging dogs by the point system is open to question; indeed, the writer believes it to be quite unworkable.

Breeders of Smooth Fox-terriers have been legion, and the number of them in whose kennels have been produced specimens of the very first order is so great that it may seem invidious to select any for special mention. Making full allowance for the greater opportunities possessed by them to appear prominently in the list of successful Fox-terrier breeders, it must still be conceded that their dogs give a just claim to that position to the following, among others that might be named : Messrs. T. Wootton, J. H. Murchison, J. T. Carver, F. J. Astbury, S. Castle, F. Powell, L. P. C. Astley, J. J. Pirn, F. Burbidge, T. Bassett, A. H. Clarke, J. B. Dale, J. A. Doyle, the Hon. T. W. Fitzwilliam, Messrs. G. Raper, F. Redmond, D. H. Owen, E. M. Southwell, C. E. Longmore, Captain Keene, Messrs. Rawdon Lee, J. C. Tinne, Luke Turner, R. and C. G. Vicary, Major How, the Rev. T. W. de Castro, the Rev. C. T. Fisher, the Rev. T. O'Grady, Mr. C. Houlker, etc.

The blood of the older champions is to be found now combined in various degrees. The subject of pedigrees, however, is an exceedingly difficult one to deal with. It is to be feared that, respecting some of the most noted "pillars of the stud" - to appropriate a happy phrase of Mr. George Lowe's - statements have been made on doubtful authority, and have gained currency.

In regard to Old Jock, a breeder of large knowledge and experience says that this dog's pedigree is wrongly given in the Kennel Club Stud Book, and that Old Jock was whelped in the Quorn Kennels.

There is another pedigree of the first importance to draw attention to. Belvoir Joe (not the Belvoir Joe of the Kennel Club Stud Book - most unfortunate of registrations - but the sire of Belgrave Joe, whose dam was Branson's White Vic) has been a stumbling-block to many. The union of Belvoir Joe with White Vic has resulted so far in giving us a vast number of the best Fox-terriers we have.

The pedigree of White Vic, made illustrious by her progeny, has often been attacked by those who, were credited with drawing on their imagination for facts; it was published for the first time in this work, but was furnished by the late Mr. Luke Turner, a gentleman to whose kennels so many of our champion Terriers and their relations trace their origin. As this work is not only for the initiated in the mysteries of kennel-lore but for novices, to whom pedigrees are often "confusion worse confounded," two short pedigrees are here given, to prevent error from sameness of names where the dogs they apply to are entirely distinct.

If the reader will hark back a little, he will see that Mr. T. H. Scott, in giving the pedigree of Jester II., refers to a Tartar, and also to a Vic, the daughter of another Vic. Now, White Vic, dam of Belgrave Joe, was daughter of a bitch named Vic and a sire named Tartar. These names represent dogs of different families, and to make the matter quite clear, we have given above the pedigrees of Jester II. and Branson's Vic, commonly referred to as White Vic.

Subjoined are some interesting particulars of four dogs of the late Mr. Luke Turner's celebrated kennels. The information respecting so famous a sire as Belgrave Joe is especially interesting: -

Belgrave Joe (born July 31st, 1868; died January 13th, 1888): Weight, 17½ 1b. ; height at shoulder, 17 in. ; length of head, 7⅛ in. ; length of nose, 3¾ in. ; length from chest to hindquarters, 17 in. Colour : marked tan head, body white.

Olive : Weight, 16 1b. (when first brought out) ; height at shoulder, 16 in.; length of head, 7¼ in. ; length of nose, 3¾ in. ; length from chest to hindquarters, 16½ in.

Spice: Weight, 16 lb. ; height at shoulder, 16½ in. ; length of head, 6⅞ in.; length of nose, 3½ in. ; length from chest to hindquarters, 16½ in.

Delta'. Weight, 15 1b; height at shoulder, I5¼ in. ; length of head, 6¾ in.; length of nose, 3½ in. ; length from chest to hindquarters, I5½ in.