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he kept a public house. Whether he got Crab at Oldham or Manchester I 

 have not been able to ascertain. He had him when in Manchester, and from 

 there sent him several times to Halifax on a visit to Kitty. The last visit 

 would be about 1850. 



Crab was a dog of about eight or nine pounds weight, with a good Terrier 

 head and eye, but with a long body, resembling the Scotch Terrier. The 

 legs and muzzle only were tanned, and the hair on the body would be about 

 three or four inches in length. He has stood for years in a case in a room of 

 the Westgate Hotel, a public house which h]s owner kept when he returned 

 to his native town, where, I believe, the dog may be seen to-day. 



Kitty was a bitch different in type from Crab. She was a drop-eared Skye, 

 with plenty of coat of a blue shade, but destitute of tan on any part of the 

 body. Like Crab, she had no pedigree. She was originally stolen from Man- 

 chester and sent to a man named Jackson, a saddler in Huddersfield, who, 

 when it became known that a five-pound reward was offered in Manchester for 

 her recovery, sent her to a person named Harrison, then a waiter at the White 

 Swan Hotel, Halifax, to escape detection; and from Harrison she passed into 

 the hands of Mr. J. Kershaw, of Beshop Blaise, a public house which once 

 stood on the Old North Bridge, Halifax. Prior to 1851 Kitty had six litters, 

 all of which, I believe, were by Crab. In these six litters she had thirty-six 

 puppies, tw T enty-eight of which were dogs, and served to stock the district 

 with rising sires. After 1851, when she passed into the possession of Mr. F. 

 Jaggar, she had forty-four puppies, making a total of eighty. 



Mr. Whittam's bitch, whose name I can not get to know, was an old Eng- 

 lish Terrier, with tanned head, ears, and legs, and a sort of grizzle back. She 

 was built on the lines of speed. Like the others, she had no pedigree. She 

 was sent when a puppy to the late Bernard Hartley, of Allen Gate, Halifax, by 

 a friend residing in Scotland. When Mr. Hartley had got tired of her, he gave 

 her to his coachman, Mason, who in turn gave her to his friend Whittam, and 

 Whittam used her years for breeding purposes. Although this bitch came 

 from Scotland, it is believed the parents were from this district. 



The last-named writer has so fully identified the three 

 dogs first employed to manufacture the breed, together 

 with their names, ownership, characteristics, and other facts 

 concerning them, that there can be no doubt as to the 

 authenticity of the history of the origin of the breed. His 

 history, although published in the Stock-Keeper in 1887, 

 has never been publicly contradicted, and it is evident that 

 there can now be no grounds for following the reasoning of 

 writers who claim that the origin is a mystery. 



The development since that time judging from an exam- 

 ination of the pedigrees of the most prominent dogs of the 

 breed has been the result of judicious selection from and 

 breeding with dogs that most nearly approached what fan- 



