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take the trouble to wade through the early pedi- 

 grees he will find white terrier blood in many of our 

 leading little bull terriers. Possibly there came to 

 be bull terrier blood in the white terrier, and the 

 exhibitor was not always quite conscientious in his 

 ideas, and if from one of his bull terrier bitches he 

 produced an animal rather lighter in bone and longer 

 in head than usual he forthwith entered it as a 

 " white English terrier," and maybe won with it. 

 At the same time he might be taking prizes with a 

 brother or sister of the same animal in the class for 

 small bull terriers. For some years at any rate 

 until the epoch of the Kennel Club and its Stud 

 Book there was a considerable amount of jumble 

 in the pedigrees of both English white terriers and 

 bull terriers, as the many-registered Tim in the 

 former and Madman in the latter too plainly testify. 

 However, as far back as 1862-3 Mr. F. White, 

 already mentioned, showed at Islington and Cremorne 

 a team of very handsome dogs, quite terriers in their 

 way, with which he won all the prizes for which he 

 competed. The names of these dogs were Teddy, 

 Laddie, Jep, Fly, and Nettle ; but at the same time, 

 or at any rate two or three years later, Mr. J. Walker, 

 of Bolton, introduced a dog called Tim, which was 

 considered to be the best terrier of the variety up 

 to that time produced, nor do I think he has been 



