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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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From
three
dogs
then
well
known--Old
Jock,
Trap,
and
Tartar--he
claims
descent;
and,
thanks
to
the
Fox-terrier
Club
and
the
great
care
taken
in
compiling
their
stud-books,
he
can
be
brought
down
to
to-day.
Of
these
three
dogs
Old
Jock
was
undoubtedly
more
of
a
terrier
than
the
others.
It
is
a
moot
point
whether
he
was
bred,
as
stated
in
most
records
of
the
time,
by
Captain
Percy
Williams,
master
of
the
Rufford,
or
by
Jack
Morgan,
huntsman
to
the
Grove;
it
seems,
however,
well
established
that
the
former
owned
his
sire,
also
called
Jock,
and
that
his
dam,
Grove
Pepper,
was
the
property
of
Morgan.
He
first
came
before
the
public
at
the
Birmingham
show
in
1862,
where,
shown
by
Mr.
Wootton,
of
Nottingham,
he
won
first
prize.
He
subsequently
changed
hands
several
times,
till
he
became
the
property
of
Mr.
Murchison,
in
whose
hands
he
died
in
the
early
'seventies.
He
was
exhibited
for
the
last
time
at
the
Crystal
Palace
in
1870,
and
though
then
over
ten
years
old
won
second
to
the
same
owner's
Trimmer.
At
his
best
he
was
a
smart,
well-balanced
terrier,
with
perhaps
too
much
daylight
under
him,
and
wanting
somewhat
in
jaw
power;
but
he
showed
far
less
of
the
Bull-terrier
type
than
did
his
contemporary
Tartar.
This
dog's
antecedents
were
very
questionable,
and
his
breeder
is
given
as
Mr.
Stevenson,
of
Chester,
most
of
whose
dogs
were
Bull-terriers
pure
and
simple,
save
that
they
had
drop
ears
and
short
sterns,
being
in
this
respect
unlike
old
Trap,
whose
sire
is
generally
supposed
to
have
been
a
Black
and
Tan
Terrier.
This
dog
came
from
the
Oakley
Kennels,
and
he
was
supposed
to
have
been
bred
by
a
miller
at
Leicester.
However
questionable
the
antecedents
of
these
three
terriers
may
have
been,
they
are
undoubtedly
the
progenitors
of
our
present
strain,
and
from
them
arose
the
kennels
that
we
have
to-day.
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