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townards, in September the same year, the opinions of experts were 

 encouraging. The eye had not the same chance of being offended at 

 shows as in former years, the majority of the weeds having disap- 

 peared. Mr. Graham won, with Sporter, the champion cup for best 

 dog or bitch exhibited. In open dogs Parnell and Tanner II. 

 were first and second respectively. In the bitches Moya Doolan 

 beat Colleen Dhas. 



At Birmingham, in December, 1878, Tanner was first and 

 Fly second. Fly had no right to her place, and it was characteristic 

 of the judging that Spuds was quite passed over. 



In December, 1878, at the Alexandra Palace, Fly (the second- 

 prize winner at Birmingham) was first, and Spuds second, Paddy II. 

 commended, and Moya Doolan not noticed. This erratic judging 

 caused the dissatisfaction already alluded to, and at the Irish 

 Kennel Club Show in April, 1879, at Dublin, Spuds and Moya 

 Doolan were first and second in champion class. Tanner II. and 

 Paddy II. were respectively first and second in open dogs; and 

 Sting, still a puppy, made her first appearance, and won in open 

 bitches, beating Rags and Kathleen. Gaelic was very highly com- 

 mended, this being his first appearance. At the Alexandra Palace 

 in July, 1879, Gaelic was put over Sporter and Erin, and a new 

 bitch over Moya Doolan. 



It was about this time that Mr. G. R. Krehl put his heart and 

 soul into the Fancy, and this gentleman can honestly claim to have 

 been instrumental in starting the breed in this country. By his 

 purchase of Belle, Splinter, Sporter, Pagan II., and other good 

 dogs, he founded a famous kennel, and a glance at the pedigree of 

 many of the best dogs of the present day will reveal the fact that 

 they contain not a little of the blood of his famous dogs. In the 

 writer's humble opinion Pagan II. was a little too much of the 

 horse-chestnut colour, but in every other respect he was absolutely 

 the best Irishman he had seen up to that time, and he always 

 regretted not using him to his bitch Grovelands Moya, to be referred 

 to later on as having killed a hedgehog smothered with cayenne. 

 This was a cropped bitch, a trifle light in colour, but a rare sort, 

 and was one of a brace purchased in County Wicklow by Mr. 

 Wickens, of Hurst, for .70. This was the time when she was 

 second to Pagan at the Henley Show, and when Mr. Barnett's Bogie 

 Rattler was a puppy, and exhibited for the first time. 



Mr. Barnett and his famous dogs are too well known to need 

 mentioning here, except to say that he has been one of the most 

 successful breeders, exhibitors, and judges in England for nearly 

 twenty years. The writer always thought Mr. Barnett's Bachelor was 

 lucky to become a champion, as there was not enough daylight 

 under his body. The writer does like to see an Irish Terrier up on 

 his legs, but not stilty, and, if he is not mistaken, he has seen far 



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