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hunted a pack of foxhounds well known in the 

 Rothbury district. At that time he possessed two 

 very celebrated kennel terriers, Peachem and Pincher, 

 which are alluded to in the pedigree below. A 

 colony of sporting nailors then flourished at Bed- 

 lington, who were noted for their plucky breed of 

 terriers. But a reform was at hand, and the old 

 favourites were obliged to make way for new blood. 

 To Joseph Ainsley, a mason by trade, belongs this 

 honour. He purchased a dog named Peachem of a 

 Mr. William Cowen, of Rothbury ; and the result of 

 a union of this dog with Mr. Christopher Dixon's 

 Phoebe, of Longhorsley, was Piper, belonging to 

 James Anderson, of Rothbury Forest. Piper was a 

 dog of splendid build, about I5in. high, and islb. 

 weight ; he was of a liver colour, the hair being a 

 .sort of hard woolly lint ; his ear was large, hung 

 close to the cheek, and was slightly feathered at the 

 tip. 



" In the year 1820 Mr. J. Howe, of Alnwick, 

 visited a friend at Bedlington, and brought with him 

 a terrier bitch named Phoebe, which he left with Mr. 

 Edward Coates, of the Vicarage. Phoebe belonged 

 to Mr. Andrew Riddell, of Framlington, who sub- 

 sequently made a present of her to Ainsley ; but, 

 from the fact of her home being at the Vicarage, 

 she was generally known as " Coates's Phoebe." 



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