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the miners round about Bedlington a village in 

 Northumberland, from which the dog takes its name 

 trained the best specimens, and would not dispose 

 of them for " untold gold." That he was a game, 

 useful terrier goes without saying, or he would not 

 have survived ; but, like others of his race, he was 

 the result of judicious crossing with local dogs, and 

 did not owe his origin, or any part of it, to foreign 

 importation. 



It is most unpatriotic for writers on canine matters 

 to fly back for the origin of our best dogs to foreign 

 countries. Even this has been done with the Bed- 

 lington, as was the case with the Dandie Dinmont 

 terrier. The latter was said to have got its crooked 

 fore legs and peculiar shoulders from a cross with 

 the German dachshund, the writer to that effect for- 

 getting that what would produce it on the one would 

 do so on the other, viz., a long heavy body, too much 

 for the little legs to support without giving way under 

 its weight. Of the Bedlington, it was said that the 

 strain had been brought, about the year 1820, from 

 Holland by a weaver who settled near Longhorsley ; 

 but all the Holland there has been about him was 

 that Mr. Taprell Holland was one of his great 

 supporters twenty-four years ago, and a leading 

 exhibitor of the variety in its earlier days. 



In the Field, 1869, there was a capital illustration 



