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terriers find most favour, in due course my reply 

 came. Certainly it was altogether in favour of the 

 identity and purity of the breed, and, being 

 from an ardent admirer of the type, and one who 

 knows what that type is, the opinion expressed must 

 be of that value I take it to be. Twenty years 

 ago my informant possessed " two rare, nice terriers 

 of the type shown now. Common enough then, 

 they were generally used in the country for the 

 ordinary terrier purposes. At Dolgelly a strain had 

 been kept in the family of Mr. J. G. Williams for 

 three generations. Mr. Griffith Williams, Trefeilar ; 

 Mr. Owen, Ymwlch ; and Mr. Edwards, Nanhorn 

 Hall, Pwllheli, had all owned Welsh terriers for 

 fifty or sixty years ; and Mr. Jones, of Ynysfor also, 

 the latter gentleman never being without a few 

 couples running with his scratch pack of hounds 

 upon and about the wild, rough country surround- 

 ing Beddgelert. Again, the late Mr. J. Rumsey 

 Williams, of Carnarvon, was an ardent admirer of 

 this variety, and several of the earlier strains which 

 have won show bench prizes can be traced from his 

 stock Mr. Dew's Topsy, Mr. J. E. Jones's Tansy, 

 and Mr. C. W. Roberts's Welsh Dick being the 

 most notable examples," Leaving North Wales 

 and going southwards, the same correspondent says 

 that Welsh terriers have been known there for one 



