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leg, with a very open coat, long, level head, with 

 little or no stop visible. The owner claimed to 

 have had her breed for over thirty years in his 

 family. I can vouch that she would fight until nearly 

 killed, if once provoked. 



" County Wicklow lays claim to a breed of 

 what were so-called Irish terriers ; they frequently 

 showed a blue shade s on the back, were long in body, 

 and rather short on leg, and even so recently as the 

 year 1887 a class was given at the show held in 

 Limerick, for silver-haired Irish terriers, the specimens 

 exhibited being a slate blue colour. They were not 

 to my mind a distinct variety, nor very terrier- 

 like in appearance, and I believe the difficulty in 

 getting a uniformity of type when breeding from the 

 very best blood obtainable is proof positive that 

 more than one strain was used in producing the 

 present fashionable dog. 



" In the first collection I saw in the Exhibition 

 Palace Show, held in Dublin early in the seventies, 

 there were scarcely two of the same size or weight 

 exhibited, and with few, very few, exceptions they 

 were a rough lot. 



" Mr. P. Flanaghan, of Dublin, had many of the 

 old sort, and game ones they were. He used them 

 for badger drawing, and in the National Show 

 alluded to, he exhibited a bitch, Daisy, which 



