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that at Bedlington in 1870, but following there was 

 one at the Crystal Palace in 1871, when Mr. H. 

 Lacey took first with his red dog Miner, a great 

 winner at early shows, the remaining prizes being 

 taken by Mr. S. T. Holland's Procter, Lassie, and 

 Jessie. Birmingham had given them one class the 

 year before, where Miner also won ; and following, 

 the late Mr. T. Pickett, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, who 

 had kept the breed for many years, introduced his 

 little blue bitch Tyne and his dog Tyneside, which 

 had long and successful careers. 



Although there seemed to be some little difference 

 of opinion occasionally as to the exact form a good 

 Bedlington terrier should take, he appears to have 

 escaped those peculiar newspaper controversies with 

 which so many dogs had been favoured. Nor was 

 he any the worse for that. Some judges had set 

 Tyne down as a bad one ; others had lauded her up 

 to the skies the only thing bad about her was her 

 temper, for she was as treacherous a dog on the 

 bench as ever entered a show. In 1875 the Bed- 

 lington Terrier Club was established, but whether 

 that body has done much for the popularisation of 

 the breed is another question. That it has not 

 taken a high place in public estimation is undoubted, 

 and the reasons for this are not far to seek. 



Unfortunately, so far as the show bench is 



