396 THE AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DOG. 



Bedlingtons. Some old fanciers claim that Rothbury is 

 tlie proper name and that it ought to have been retained. 



Two of the elder Allan's favorite dogs were Peachem 

 and Pincher, names appearing among later dogs; and we 

 find the name of Piper, derived from Piper Allan, borne by 

 the first Bedlington Terrier, so called. 



Pedigrees of known dogs of this breed are traced back 

 to 1792 and 1782, but we have no good description of 

 such dogs until those written in the early part of this 

 century. 



We must remember that one hundred years ago Terriers 

 were known only as either rough or smooth; and, generally 

 speaking, we may say that the rough sorts were found where 

 the climate and work were the most trying. They there- 

 fore come rightly by a reputation for being a tough, plucky, 

 hard-bitten race, their hard, weather-resisting coats en- 

 abling them to withstand the greatest amount of wear and 

 tear, whether on land or in water. 



Although we do not know so much as we would like to 

 know about these early Rodberry Terriers, we do know the 

 strain and its geographical situation. We know the char- 

 acter and physique of the Northumbrian man. He is stal- 

 wart and robust, seldom corpulent; is clean, thrifty and 

 plodding, honest and sincere, shrewd and independent.* 

 We naturally find similar characteristics in his dogs, and 

 we may depend upon his appreciation of such animals from 

 the fact that the first of all dog shows was held in the 

 Northumbrian city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. This was in 

 1859. Subsequently, more important shows were held in the 

 larger centers of Great Britain; but anyone looking about 

 Newcastle and its neighborhood can not fail to notice the 

 keen interest taken in sport on every hand. 



In 1825 one Thomas Ainsley, a mason, who had bred a 

 remarkably good Terrier called Young Piper, and from 

 whom many of the best dogs are descended, first gave the 

 breed its present name, after a town some thirteen miles 



* Encyclopedia Britannica, ninth edition, Northumberland. 



