Even in his schoolboy days Mr. Robert Vicary was keen on Terriers for work and badger digging, then held in great estimation, but it was 1874 before he attempted to combine good looks with working qualities.

A visit to Mr. Murchison's kennels at Tring, and the purchase then of rare old Lancer, convinced him that a Terrier could be at once a topper at work and a picture to look at. Breeding on these lines, he gradually founded a kennel strain which for style, work, and the true characteristics of the breed is well known and appreciated far and wide.

MR. J. SIDNEY TURNER CHAIRMAN OF THE KENNEL CLUB.

From photo by W. J. Wright, Upper Norwood, S.E.

Mr. Vicary has always eschewed fads; he goes in for no one particular point to be bred for and exaggerated at the expense of others. "Good legs and feet and nothing else" have not tempted him to lose sight of what a Fox-terrier ought to be, and adhesion to his judgment on this matter - however Fashion might run - sticking to the type, has amply repaid him by the success his kennel has achieved to whatever part of the world Terriers of his breeding have gone.

Mr. Vicary scored his first win at the Royal Cornwall Show - his first attempt - and made his first judging effort at the same show some two years later. Since then he has officiated at nearly all the best shows. He occasionally judges Irish Terriers, and has had before him some of the strongest classes ever seen.

Undertaking the Mastership of the South Devon Fox-hounds some four years ago, in conjunction with Mr. W. M. G. Singer, has prevented his accepting many judging invitations or often exhibiting, but he has lost no interest in his Terriers, and probably has now the best lot of dogs he ever possessed.

The following is a list of some of the best dogs sent out from the Newton Abbot Kennels: Volo, Vigilant, Vera, Vehement, Viking, Votaress, Vindictive, Violent, Vedette, Viva, Village Belle, Vizier, Vakeel, Victor Chief, Veni, Valet, Venilia, Velasquez, Vesuvienne, Vesuvian, Veronese, Venio, Verdad, Valens, Vernet, Valentina, Vase-lesa, Villanelle, Vano, Vengo, Victorina, Viceregal, Vicety, Valteline, Valvoline, Vere de Vere, Visto, Vivisco, Valuator, Vendeur, Vis-a-vis, Viete, Vora, Vigia, Vineta, Vigilo, Viamede, Violet de Vere, Veracity, Veracious, Victoriola, Vitez, Vendor, Victor Ludorum, Vibo, Valeda, Vicintia, Velocipede, Vanodel, Vonolel, Velis, Veldt.

MR. ROBERT VICARY.

From photo by E. Kelley, Newton Abbot.

MR. ROBERT VICARY'S FOX-TERRIER VANODEL.

From photo by J. C. Dinham, Torquay.

MR. ROBERT VICARY'S FOX-TERRIER VELOCIPEDE.

From photo by J. C. Dinham, Torquay.

I am pleased to be able to give with this sketch not only a capital portrait of Mr. Robert Vicary, but some of his noted Fox-terriers, Valuator, Velocipede, and Vanodel, which I am sure will be very interesting to many of my readers, who have often seen these names in the prize lists and the animals in the show rings.