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good specimen half as heavy again. That there is 

 material for re-popularising the breed I am quite 

 certain, and at the last Birmingham show, in 

 November, 1893, several very nice little dogs were 

 shown, at least their character and style were nice, 

 but their crooked fore legs and wide shoulders kept 

 them out of the prize list. Still, the material 

 remains to be improved upon. 



Messrs. Lea, of Birmingham, have lately shown 

 some good bull terriers ; so has Mr. S. Fielding, of 

 Trentham; whilst Mr. F. North, of Streatham, has 

 been particularly successful, and his Streatham 

 Monarch, which was sold to America for about 80, 

 was certainly one of the best bull terriers of the last 

 year or two. Mr. G. Blair's White Queen (Edin- 

 burgh), was likewise another of our very best bull 

 terriers; indeed, I consider these two quite equal to 

 anything we have had since Mr. Hartley's brace, 

 already mentioned. Grand Prior, who has won 

 many prizes, is not deserving of a high place of 

 excellence, solely on account of the fact that his 

 mouth is not level, and for this reason Mr. S. E. 

 Shirley put him out of the prize list at one of the 

 Bath shows. Another celebrated bull terrier whose 

 mouth was not quite level was Mr. Hartley's 

 Magnet. I fancy that, in what I should call the 

 palmy days of bull terriers, a dog with such a 



