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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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In
mentioning
the
names
of
celebrated
men
and
terriers
of
years
gone
by,
reference
must
be
made
to
a
terrier
shown
some
time
ago,
which
was
as
good,
taken
all
round,
as
any
that
have
so
far
appeared.
This
was
Ch.
Quantock
Nettle,
afterwards
purchased
by
a
gentleman
in
Wales
and
renamed
Lexden
Nettle.
Of
correct
size,
with
marvellous
character,
an
excellent
jacket
and
very
takingly
marked
with
badger
tan
and
black
on
a
wonderful
head
and
ears,
this
bitch
swept
the
board,
as
they
say,
and
unquestionably
rightly
so.
No
article
on
the
wire-hair
Fox-terrier
would
be
complete
without
mentioning
the
name
of
the
late
Mr.
S.
E.
Shirley,
President
of
the
Kennel
Club.
Mr.
Shirley
was
a
successful
exhibitor
in
the
early
days
of
the
variety,
and
while
his
terriers
were
a
good-looking
lot,
though
not
up
to
the
show
form
of
to-day,
they
were
invariably
hard-bitten,
game
dogs,
kept
chiefly
for
work.
On
the
question
of
size
nearly
all
the
principal
judges
of
the
Fox-terrier
are
agreed.
Their
maxim
is
"a
good
little
one
can
always
beat
a
good
big
one."
The
difficulty
arises
when
the
little
ones
are
no
good,
and
the
big
ones
are
excellent;
it
is
a
somewhat
common
occurrence,
and
to
anyone
who
loves
a
truly
formed
dog,
and
who
knows
what
a
truly
formed
dog
can
do,
it
is
an
extremely
difficult
thing
to
put
the
little
above
the
larger.
All
big
dogs
with
properly
placed
shoulders
and
sound
formation
are
better
terriers
for
work
of
any
sort
than
dogs
half
their
size,
short
on
the
leg,
but
bad
in
these
points.
It
is
in
reality
impossible
to
make
an
inexorable
rule
about
this
question
of
size;
each
class
must
be
judged
on
its
own
merits.
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