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cashire and Yorkshire exhibitions. The large 

 London dog shows as far back as 1863-64, divided 

 these classes of white terriers, one being for dogs and 

 bitches under six or seven pounds weight, as the case 

 might be ; the other for dogs and bitches over that 

 standard. To instance the popularity the variety 

 held at that time, one exhibitor alone (Mr. F. White, 

 of Clapham) had eleven entries in the class restricted 

 to dogs under six pounds weight, and these were all 

 good specimens. Indeed, Mr. White appeared to be 

 a larger breeder of this variety of the English terrier 

 than anyone else, so much so that I once heard it 

 argued that it was called after him, and ought in 

 reality be known as "White's terrier," and not as 

 the white terrier. However, this would not suit 

 our friends in the north, who in reality, even at 

 that time, had equally good specimens that had 

 never seen Clapham Common. Mr. John Hoodless, 

 of Bayswater, showed some nice terriers between 

 1862 and 1866. 



It has been surmised that the original English 

 white terrier had been a fox terrier crossed with a 

 white Italian greyhound (I never saw one), and 

 again with the small-sized bull terrier. On the 

 contrary, I believe that the small-sized bull terrier 

 was stopped on its road to popularity by a cross 

 with the variety under notice. If anyone will 



