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called and the breed given the euphonic title of the Aire- 

 dale Terrier. There was about this time a good deal of 

 correspondence in the " Live Stock Journal." All this 

 excited a great amount of interest, and the breed en- 

 listed some powerful supporters in its best interests. A 

 vast deal of harm was inflicted upon the breed at this 

 time by the Descriptive article which appeared in the 

 "Book of the Dog." Mr. Reginald Knight was the author 

 of the article, giving a description and scale of points 

 which, as Mr. C. II. Mason caustically wrote, probably 

 fitted his dog Thunder, but was radically wrong in many 

 respects. 



It was Mr. Mason who probably had the honour o? 

 taking the first specimen to the United States in Bruce, 

 who was the father of Champion Brush, a very useful 

 animal at stud, although blind in one eye, but one of the 

 gamest Terriers that ever lived. It will come as a sur- 

 prise to latter-day fanciers that the gameness of the 

 breed was hotly debated. Breeds that are quarrelsome 

 often get a spurious reputation for great pluck, so that 

 the mild aloofness of the Airedale was by some set down 

 to lack of spirit, but his grim readiness to take death 

 with unflinching courage soon placed him in the fore- 

 front as a courageous companion who would not quarrel 

 unless " put upon." There are few breeds where tho 

 element of personal devotion is so pronounced, and any 

 lonely country house guarded by one or two Airedales 

 would be given a wide berth by the burgling fraternity. 

 His greatest claim as a sporting dog is his all-round 

 character as a field dog. And here, considered his- 

 torically, he has not deteriorated one iota from his 

 adaptability to every line of sport as a gun-dog. He is 

 seldom or never gun shy, and will do, if properly trained, 

 the work of the Pointer, Setter, Spaniel, and Retriever. 

 As a rabbit dog he is facile prince ps. So here we have 

 lost none of his original sporting qualities. One often 



