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happy until he gets it-the fox-driven from his lurking place underground.

Much more-very much more-could be written of the fox terrier, especially as to his work, but those who think I have not said enough must refer back to the "History of the Fox Terrier," already alluded to. That he will do his work after game underground goes without saying, and he has been trained by one of the modern electric lighting companies to assist them in a part of their business, and I cannot better close my story of the fox terrier than by copying the following from a London newspaper :

"The method adopted by the Crompton Electric Lighting Company in laying their connections consists in copper strips (technically known as the 'strip') conducted along the whole of their system in culverts underground. It is necessary to carry these strips through the culverts in lengths of about 100 yards each, and they are laid four abreast. These strips are supported on transverse bars at intervals of 10 yards. The difficulty and expense of laying these strips was a serious consideration for the company, until it occurred to the foreman of the works that a terrier might be trained to carry a guide rope along the culverts, to the end of which the strip could be attached, and then easily drawn through. He had in his possession a fox terrier

about nine months old, which he immediately began to train for the business. To induce a terrier to travel 100 yards underground is not such a very difficult task, but it must be remembered that at every 10 yards came the transverse supports, and it was necessary for her to jump over these every time until she could be depended upon to jump over every support without fail, else she was useless for the work in hand, and herein lay the great difficulty in her education. However, by patience and perseverance on the part of her master, aided by the naturally honourable disposition of Strip, perfection was reached, and she never makes a single mistake

now.

"Working in the dark culverts she can be implicitly trusted to assist the company in her department, and has laid many miles of wires both in London and Brighton. And the company, recognising the value of a good servant, pay her fair wages, which she receives every Saturday morning along with other employés of the company."

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CHAPTER VI.

THE WIRE-HAIRED FOX TERRIER.

MUCH contained in the preceding chapter is app"cable to the wire-haired fox terrier, for in colour, -make, and shape, the two ought to be identical, ith the one has a smooth close coat, the other a had. se coat and somewhat rough

This should be hard and crisp, not too long, nech too short, but of a tough, coarse texture, finer und meath, all so close and dense that the skin cannot be seen or even felt, and, if possible, so weather and water resisting that the latter will stand on the sides like beads, and run off the whole body as it is said to do, and does, off a duck's back. There must not be the slightest Sign of silkine sa anywhere, not even of the bad. A curly jacket, or one inclined to be so, is far better than a silky one. Ind, ed, some of the best corted dogs of this variety I have seen had more than an inclination to be curly--the crispest hair on the human head has usually a tendency to be so, and the

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