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and perhaps the Scotch and Irish terriers (though 

 I fancy that both these varieties are actually much 

 older as such than they are usually given credit 

 for) ; whilst the bull-terriers, Bedlington terriers, 

 Skye terriers, fox terriers (rough and smooth), black 

 and tan terriers, white English terriers (including 

 English and other smooth-haired terriers), broken 

 haired Scotch and Yorkshire terriers, with the toy 

 terriers, rough and smooth, had places given them 

 in the first volume of the " Kennel Club Stud Book," 

 published in 1874. 



It is, perhaps, interesting to state that the first 

 two dog shows held, which took place in 1859, at 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne and in Birmingham, did not 

 offer prizes for terriers ; but at the latter show the 

 following year classes were provided for black and 

 tan terriers, white and other English terriers, Scotch 

 terriers (both winners being Skye terriers) and for 

 toy terriers (the four classes having twenty-three 

 entries, seven of which were "toys"), ten Scottish 

 (Skyes), four white English and two black and tan 

 terriers. Now, thirty years later, we can hold a 

 show of terriers that will produce over a thousand 

 entries, and at an exhibition at the Agricultural 

 Hall, Islington, in February, 1893, there were 162 

 classes provided for terriers, and they contained 

 something like 880 competitors. Such figures as 



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