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no doubt remain so till the end of his time, and his 

 place is usurped by other dogs which, certainly not 

 handsomer, will be less difficult to keep in prime coat 

 and in good condition. It has been said that the 

 late Mr. Peter Eden, of Manchester, so noted in his 

 day for pigs and bulldogs, had " invented " the 

 Yorkshire terrier. This he had not done, although 

 in its early day he owned some very excellent speci- 

 mens, which for the most part he had purchased 

 from the working men in Lancashire. It was they 

 who bred them, and delighted to show them at the 

 local exhibitions, of which that at Middleton, near 

 Manchester, was the chief. Here, and at the Belle 

 Vue shows, were always to be found the choicest 

 specimens, which their owners treasured with great 

 care, and had to be uncommonly " hard up " to be 

 induced to sell their favourites. They would get 

 20 or ^"30 for a good specimen, more if it was 

 " extra special," and this at a time when dogs did 

 not run to so much money as they do now. We 

 have on record that Mrs. Troughear, of Leeds, sold 

 her little dog Conqueror to Mrs. Emmott, wife of an 

 American actor, for ^250. Still, since its first intro- 

 duction the Yorkshire terrier has not progressed in 

 public estimation ; indeed the contrary may be said to 

 be more the case, the reasons for which will be plainly 

 enough told before the conclusion of this chapter. 



