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of Andrew Riddell's Wasp, of Framlington ; Wasp, 

 by Wm. Turnbull's Pincher, of Holystone, out of 

 W'illiam Wardle's bitch ; Pincher, by Donkin's Old 

 Peachem out of Turnbull's Fan ; Fan, by Myles's 

 Matchem, of Netherwitton, by Squire Trevelyan's 

 Flint. Donkins's Pincher, by Donkins'sOld Peachem 

 (continued from Ainsley's Piper). Ainsley's Crowner, 

 by owner's Piper out of owner's Meg ; Meg, out of 

 Jin (own sister to Piper), by Robert Bell's Tugg, 

 of Wingates ; Tugg, by Robert Dixon's Dusty, of 

 Longhorsley, out of a bitch of the Makepiece breed, 

 presented to J. Ainsley by John Thompson." 



Certainly not before 1825 was the name Bed- 

 lington given to the breed, although Major 

 Cowan wrote to " Stonehenge " and forwarded him 

 a pedigree of the blue and tan dog Askem II., which 

 went back as far as 1782, but, as the learned author 

 of (( Dogs of the British Isles " said, there was no 

 proof that the earliest strain possessed the same 

 characteristics as the modern dog. However, the 

 pedigree was there traced back to Squire Trevelyan's 

 Old Flint, pupped in 1782. But it was not because 

 of his lineage that the Bedlington terrier became 

 popular; this was due to his adaptability as a com- 

 panion and his general usefulness as an all round 

 dog. 



The first show to have classes for this terrier was 



