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to tell, we have advanced, and for the one or two great 

 Terriers in the years that are past who used to fight 

 their duels at show after show the fancy can now pit 

 together a score of front rankers, all so close together 

 that the lucky first of one day is the reserve of the next. 

 I don't know that it is in my province, yet I must 

 strenuously warn breeders that in their keen desire to 

 get that high quality and Terrier character, they are 

 .sacrificing that beautiful black saddle, with its pig 

 bristle harshness. A dog with a coat like this can be 

 hours in the water without materially altering the feel, 

 and I am keen that it never should be forgotten that the 

 Airedale is, par excellence, a water dog. But to enable 

 him to keep that just title we must breed for the weather- 

 resisting jacket. Yorkshire fanciers have not abated one 

 jot in their interest for the breed. One of the sights of 

 the year for the pessimistic owner is the great Airedale 

 carnival at Otley, in June, to see the vast ring crowded 

 on the outside, six deep, with men and women, following 

 with breathless interest the various results, many of the 

 spectators probably knowing just as much about the 

 breed as the adjudicator. Time was, and not so very far 

 back, when party feeling ran so high that the judge who 

 displeased the home experts around the ring side was 

 often in imminent danger of personal ill-usage. I re- 

 member on one very sultry occasion when a popular 

 judge, and a very much respected one of the day, had to 

 beat a hasty retreat. That rare old dog, Clip, was the 

 cause of the popular clamour of that day. For my own 

 part, I always thought the judge unjustly assailed, as, 

 even according to present-day requirements, Clip would 

 be considered a first flighter. One great good this old 

 warrior did for the breed in general, and a to-day 

 celebrated kennel, was to stamp his beautiful dark eyes 

 upon the breed, and that at a time when the Hound-like 

 shape and colour were very prevalent. Poor old Clip 



