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greatly, a wonderfully timbered dog, very harsh coat, 3 

 very long head, and a grand natural coat and colour. 

 His eyes were .light and ears not clever, but judge him 

 all in all, he was worthy to rank in the select gallery of 

 celebrities. 



Walton Victory, bred by the then President of the 

 South of England Airedale Terrier Club, Mr. Marshall 

 Lee, sire Ch. Master Briar, dam, the gold mine, Bath 

 Lady, was perhaps unlucky not to have secured her final 

 championship. She was awarded two, one at Liverpool 

 for best dog or bitch, and one at Birmingham. At the 

 last-named show she beat a nailing good lot of bitches, 

 and the verdict hung in suspense a long time. Finally, 

 she won by a narrow margin, closely followed by Gains- 

 borough Duchess and Rock Ferry Vixen. Duchess was 

 a pick-up, a rare good sort, but rather doggy in head, 

 and her shoulders were decidedly loose. Rock Ferry 

 Vixen, on the other hand, had splendid shoulders, rare 

 legs and feet, a right down good jacket; a real good 

 Terrier, but on the coarse side. A bitch of rather 

 opposite type and structure to the last-named three, Ch. 

 Delph Girl, came out at Otley in 1902. I thought her 

 a well-made one, with fine head and expression and a good 

 black coat . I gave her some first prizes, but hardly thought 

 her first class. She was too Welsh in type to altogether 

 fill my eye. However, she furnished a full-blown cham- 

 pion, and had quite a successful show life in the United 

 States. Two Terriers came out in 1901 who were destined 

 to play a tremendous part in the future history of the 

 breed, Claverhouse Enchantress, by Ch. Cloiimel 

 Monarch, ex Clonmel Winifreda. She won a few first 

 prizes, and was always in the money, but it was as a 

 matron that she was to become famous. I sold her to 

 Mrs. Cuthell at six months, with a service to a dog I was 

 to select. I believe that this celebrated bitch was the 

 first Airedale that Mrs. Cuthell ever owned, so that it 



