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hundred and fifty years in connection with the 

 Glansevin Hunt, and likewise with the Abererch 

 Hunt for almost as long a period. Now all these 

 dogs, of somewhat different strains, were produced 

 of similar type. Some were larger than others, 

 some shorter and thicker in head, nor were they all 

 identical in build and height from the ground ; still, 

 a similarity in appearance ran throughout, which 

 plainly betokened a common origin. 



In addition to this practical argument in favour of 

 the Welshness of these terriers, classes were first 

 made for them at Welsh shows, the one held at 

 Carnarvon in July, 1885, I believe, being the earliest 

 of all ; but it was at Bangor, in the following 

 August, that the meeting took place which inaugu- 

 rated the club, following a suggestion made by a 

 correspondent in the columns of the Field some 

 short time earlier. 



Returning for a moment to the various animals 

 exhibited as Welsh terriers, it is remarkable that by 

 far the three best dogs up to a certain date were 

 English-bred ones, and of English extraction, and 

 two of them came from the district of South 

 Durham and North Yorkshire. The latter were the 

 Welsher, first shown by Mr. A. Maxwell, Croft, 

 near Darlington, and the puppy Mawdwy Nonsuch, 

 purchased from the same gentleman at an enormous 



