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has been of such service in promoting the excellence 

 of at least one side of the present strain, that 

 some description of him may be given. 



Jester, by Pincher out of Fan, born in September, 

 1877, was bred by Mr. S. Rawlinson, Newton Morrell, 

 near Darlington. There were three in the litter, all 

 dogs, two died in puppyhood, and, his sire being sold, 

 the alliance between him and Fan was not repeated. 

 Jester's dam came from Mr. M. Dodds, Stockton- 

 on-Tees, son of an ex-member of Parliament for that 

 borough, and not from Jack Dodds, of whom Mr. 

 A. Maxwell, Croft, purchased his favourite, and he 

 always regretted the pedigree further than sire and 

 dam could not be obtained. Pincher was a great 

 prize winner about 1869-71, and was, with Mr. 

 Donald Graham's Venom, considered the best 

 specimen of his race about that time. 



Following the above came that good bitch, 

 Bramble, of Mr. G. F. Richardson's, size being her 

 only fault (she was 2olb. weight), which was the 

 common one about this period, as Balance, another 

 first-class terrier, was too big. Mr. Lindsay Hogg's 

 Topper, Jack Terry's Pincher, Mr. Colmore's 

 (Burton-on-Trent) Turk; Splinter, Teazle, Toiler, 

 were all excellent terriers, better almost than any we 

 have now, and so was Mr. R. F. Mayhew's Brittle, 

 which is now in America. 



