The fore ribs should be moderately arched, the back ribs deep; and the dog should be well ribbed up.  HIND-QUARTERS—­Should be strong and muscular, quite free from droop or crouch; the thighs long and powerful; hocks near the ground, the dog standing well up on them like a Foxhound, and not straight in the stifle.  STERN—­Should be set on rather high, and carried gaily, but not over the back or curled.  It should be of good strength, anything approaching a “pipe-stopper” tail being especially objectionable.  LEGS AND FEET—­The Legs viewed in any direction must be straight, showing little or no appearance of an ankle in front.  They should be strong in bone throughout, short and straight to pastern.  Both fore and hind legs should be carried straight forward in travelling, the stifles not turned outwards.  The elbows should hang perpendicular to the body, working free of the side.  The Feet should be round, compact, and not large.  The soles hard and tough.  The toes moderately arched, and turned neither in nor out.  COAT—­Should be straight, flat, smooth, hard, dense, and abundant.  The belly and under side of the thighs should not be bare.  As regards colour, white should predominate; brindle, red, or liver markings are objectionable.  Otherwise this point is of little or no importance.  SYMMETRY, SIZE, AND CHARACTER—­The dog must present a general gay, lively, and active appearance; bone and strength in a small compass are essentials; but this must not be taken to mean that a Fox-terrier should be cloggy, or in any way coarse—­speed and endurance must be looked to as well as power, and the symmetry of the Foxhound taken as a model.  The terrier, like the hound, must on no account be leggy, nor must he be too short in the leg.  He should stand like a cleverly-made hunter, covering a lot of ground, yet with a short back, as before stated.  He will then attain the highest degree of propelling power, together with the greatest length of stride that is compatible with the length of his body.  Weight is not a certain criterion of a terrier’s fitness for his work—­general shape, size and contour are the main points; and if a dog can gallop and stay, and follow his fox up a drain, it matters little what his weight is to a pound or so, though, roughly speaking, it may be said he should not scale over twenty pounds in show condition.

DISQUALIFYING POINTS:  NOSE—­White, cherry, or spotted to a considerable extent with either of these colours.  EARS—­prick, tulip, or rose.  MOUTH—­much overshot or much undershot.

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In order to give some idea of the extraordinary way in which the Fox-terrier took the public taste, it will be necessary to hark back and give a resume of the principal kennels and exhibitors to whom this was due.  In the year in which the Fox-terrier Club was formed, Mr. Fred Burbidge, at one time captain of the Surrey Eleven, had the principal kennels.  He was the pluckiest buyer of his day, and once he