The Bedlington Terrier. 321 



Palace show in 1870, and went thence to Birmingham, where she was 

 again not noticed; she was then sent to Manchester, but, from some 

 mistake of the railway servants, was never taken out of her hamper. At 

 Liverpool, to which show she was sent on, a similar mistake occurred ; 

 but the committee of the show becoming aware of the fact, sent Mr. 

 Pickett a special prize. Despite this series of rebuffs, Mr. Pickett 

 forwarded Tyne to the Glasgow show, when the judges pronounced her 

 not to be a Bedlington at all. The ' Scotsman ' of 2nd March, 1872, 

 however, in its notice of the show, remarked that she was by a very 

 long way the best in the class in which she was exhibited. This was 

 a case of doctors differing with a vengeance ; and Tyne managed to 

 stultify the Glasgow decision by making a round of brilliant victories 

 at York, Kendal, Bedlington, Blaydon, Seaton Burn, and other dis- 

 trict shows, and won twice at Durham viz., in 1870 and 1871 finally 

 visiting the great Crystal Palace exhibition of 1872, and taking first 

 prize in her class, which the 'Times,' of 2nd June, 1872, described as 

 the best collection of Bedlingtons ever exhibited at any show. Tear-'em 

 is the hero of the original show at Bedlington in 1870, where, in a class 

 of fifty-two competitors a number that has never been exceeded since 

 he was awarded first prize. Tyneside, a beautiful blue bitch, fault- 

 less in shape, coat, and colour, was placed first in a class of twenty- 

 five at Bedlington in 1871 ; but in the Bedlington show of 1872, this 

 distinguished branch of the family obtained its greatest triumph Tyne 

 (own sister to Tear-'em) being placed first, with Tear-'em second, and 

 Tyneside third, in a class of twenty- three entries. I have been supplied 

 with a pedigree of Tyneside for six generations back, but the limited 

 space at my disposal prevents my giving it here. It may, however, be 

 stated that she is inbred to a most curious extent, the name of Hutchin- 

 son's Tip occurring no less than five times in the course of her pedigree, 

 while on the part of both sire and dam she is descended from such grand 

 dogs as Bagille's Piper, Thompson's Jean, Burn's Twig, Jos. ShevilTs 

 Jean, Thompson's Boa Alley Tip, and Bagille's Nimble, &c. The dimen- 

 sions of Tyneside are as follows : From lugs to tip of nose, Sin. ; length 

 of tail, IHin. ; length of lugs, 5in. ; breadth (tapering off in a filbert 

 shape), Sin. ; height from the claw to the shoulder blade, 14fin. ; weight, 

 201b. ; size round the chest, 19Jin. ; and fore arm, 7iin. So much for 

 the Bedlingtons, and in taking leave of the race I may mention that most 



T 



