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he always seized by the throat and pretty nearly 

 killed. I have had no experience in prize-fighting 

 dogs, but I think that this dog was about fit to 

 kill any other dog of his weight, which would be 

 some 2olb. or so. 



He is a more active dog than the Scotch terrier 

 or Dandie Dinmont, and in reality is perhaps the 

 smartest and quickest of all our terriers. As a 

 water dog no terrier can surpass him, and few equal 

 him. Some years ago there were trials for water 

 dogs at a show held by the now defunct British 

 Kennel Association, at the Aston grounds, Bir- 

 mingham. In one competition the dogs had to 

 rescue and bring from the water a " dummy corpse"; 

 in the other the trial was for speed alone. No dog 

 did better work than Mr. A. Holcroft's Bedlington 

 terrier Nailor, who was awarded not only third prize 

 as a " life saver," but an equal second for pace, in 

 which as a fact he was pretty nearly as good as the 

 late Mr. BagnalPs well-known Landseer Newfound- 

 land Prince Charlie. Nailor was, besides, a repeated 

 prize winner on the bench at this time, about 1882. 



Nowadays the prevailing and fashionable colour is 

 blue ; some of the best of the earlier dogs were pale 

 red, with yellow eyes and red nose ; others were 

 brown or liver-coloured, and some few were blue 

 and tan ; the latter colour I never liked, though 



