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all-round specimen of her race that ever lived, her 

 progeny Poppy and Playboy, and there were several 

 other typical terriers whose names do not occur to 

 me. I became enamoured of the variety, and then 

 prognosticated a popular future for them should they 

 only breed fairly true to character and type, and be 

 produced with ears that did not require cutting. 

 That I was not far wrong is plainly in evidence, as 

 the Irish terrier must certainly be placed as the 

 second terrier in popularity at the time I write. 



The early volumes of the (i Kennel Club Stud 

 Book" did not contain special classes for Irish terriers, 

 they being grouped with the wire-haired fox terriers. 

 However, in 1876 they had a division for themselves, 

 in which there were nineteen entries, five of 

 which were owned by Mr. G. Jameson, of New- 

 townards. To prove how the variety has increased 

 since then, attention need only be called to the two 

 hundred and twenty names of Irish terriers that 

 appear in the most recent volume of the Stud Book, 

 published in 1893. In 1878 and 1879 Birmingham 

 first arranged classes for Irish terriers, and in the 

 latter year, when there were fifteen entries, Messrs. 

 Carey, W. Graham, A. Krehl, and G. R. Krehl were 

 amongst the exhibitors in the two divisions provided. 



Before the dates named we look in vain for 

 classes for Irish terriers at the leading shows out of 



