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Birmingham ; Mr. J. Littler, Birmingham ; Mr. P. 

 Morgan, London ; Mr. S. E. Shirley, and others 

 had some very good specimens, and Mr. E. T. 

 Dew's Fly (Weston-super-Mare) must not be 

 forgotten. Mr. Shirley's Purity, that won third prize 

 at the Crystal Palace in 1872, was by Tim out of a 

 bitch by the smart fourteen-pound bull terrier 

 Nelson, hence her name, a piece of sarcasm pointed 

 no doubt at the carelessness (?) of some dog 

 breeders as to how they crossed their various 

 strains. Other dogs that did a great deal of winning 

 in their day, about the " eighties," were Mr. J. 

 Martin's Joe, Gem, and Pink, animals rather more 

 of the whippet type in body though wonderfully 

 neat in head than some people liked. 



I think when all is said and done that our best 

 and purest strain of this white terrier came from the 

 north of England, where a few are still bred, as 

 they are in the Midlands, but fewer in the Metropolis. 

 The most recent London-bred specimens I have seen 

 have been comparative toys, under lolb. in weight, 

 and with that round skull, or so-called " apple head," 

 which so persists in making its appearance in 

 lilliputian specimens of the dog an effect of in- 

 breeding. 



The English white terrier is in appearance an 

 attractive dog, small in size he should not be more 



