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for him was thought to have more money than sense. 

 However, the purchaser, Mr. Holmes, of Beverley, 

 was right, and such a dog as Venture would to-day 

 command one hundred guineas at least. 



A half brother to the last-named dog was called 

 Tip, a white terrier with blue, badger-pied marks on 

 his body and head, not an unusual colour then, but 

 seldom seen nowadays. At Liverpool Show in 1889 a 

 dog named Carlisle Young Venture similarly marked 

 was benched, and Mr. Donald Graham, one of our 

 oldest supporters and best judges of the variety, 

 told me it was directly descended from Tip. The 

 latter, a peculiarly heavily muscled dog, would 

 weigh, I fancy, hard on to 2olb., he had such a 

 strong back, and powerful bone. His head was a 

 little too short, and his coat, though hard, was 

 scarcely profuse enough. His small ears and 

 determined dare-devil look out of his little dark 

 eyes, gave an amount of character that is sadly 

 deficient in the terrier of to-day, who possesses an 

 advantage only on the score of neatness. After 

 changing hands two or three times, Tip, who was 

 born in 1872, went into Mr. Shirley's kennels, 

 from whence he visited the shows and did a great 

 deal of winning, but he was always to Venture in the 

 wire hairs what Tartar had been to Old Jock in the 

 smooth variety the bull terrier of the party. 



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