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sure no dog exists that can boast of better legs and 

 feet than a good specimen of this variety, and their 

 uniformity of type is now thoroughly established. 

 That the latter is the case was in strong evidence at 

 the Crystal Palace show in October, 1891, when 

 Mr. H. M. Bryan's entry of Airedale terriers divided 

 the special honours awarded to the best team of 

 terriers in the show with Mr. Leatham's mustard 

 Dandie Dinmonts. There were eleven batches com- 

 peting, including fox, Scotch, Skye, Irish, and 

 Bedlington terriers, and the divided victory of New- 

 bold Test, Cholmondeley Briar, and Cholmondeley 

 Bridesmaid was well received, pleasing the admirers 

 of the variety immensely. 



As to their gameness, opinions appear to be some- 

 what divided, and " Stonehenge," in his " Dogs of 

 the British Isles," gave them a very bad character 

 indeed, so far as courage was concerned, but I never 

 knew that their admirers claimed for them this 

 " commodity" to any extraordinary degree. One 

 correspondent wrote : " Airedale terriers are a failure. 

 The result of my experiences of them is that I find 

 them to have good noses, they will beat a hedgerow, 

 will find and kill rats and rabbits, and work well with 

 ferrets. They are good water dogs and companions, 

 possessing a fair amount of intelligence. This is 

 the sum total of their excellence. They came to 



