O VIMU F6L4 Nift of the Boks means Illeужно LONDON: PRINTED BY HORACE COX, WINDSOR HOUSE, BREAM'S BUILDINGS, E.C. MI N. W PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. NEW EDITION of this volume being required so soon after the earlier publications, appears to be some little evidence that the popularity of the Fox Terrier is not yet on the wane. This fresh issue is very considerably extended, and now contains 239 pages and fourteen portraits, against 148 pages and eight portraits in the first edition. In addition to being brought quite up to date, the present volume includes amplified particulars as to rearing, feeding, and training terriers as companions and as house-dogs. Their ordinary ailments are likewise more fully dealt with, and besides, there is a variety of information likely to be useful to all who keep a little dog. The additional illustrations are portraits of the smoothcoated fox terriers Venio, Lyons Sting, D'Orsay, and Dame Fortune; and of the wire-haired fox terriers Jack St. Leger and Charnwood Marion. RAWDON LEE. BRIXTON, 697858 PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. VOLUME such as this purports to be, devoted to a variety of terrier, would twenty years ago have been considered altogether superfluous. Now, in 1889, so popular have dogs grown, and such attention is given them, that a book which in its entirety tells of the variety most popular of all-the Fox Terrier, as he has been and as he is--becomes, as it were, one of the necessities of the day. And so I was requested to do the best I could in the matter. The result of my labours is given in the following pages, and if the reader fails to find any novelty therein, he will, at any rate, have a résumé of the history of the smoothcoated and wire-haired fox terriers, and some few trifling scraps of information that have not hitherto appeared in print. That this little dog does actually possess a status in society may be inferred from the fact that, in addition to a monthly journal (The Fox Terrier Chronicle) to look after its interests, there are a number of special clubs to do likewise; a parent club, with several minor institutions. The Fox Terrier is now best known as a dog for exhibi |