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a rule survive to a fair age, and some of the best have 

 been shown successfully for quite as many years as 

 any other variety of exhibition dog. Mrs. Foster's 

 little champion Ted was quite at the head of his 

 class for six years, at any rate ; whilst Hudders- 

 field Ben, Conqueror, and others appeared 

 successfully for three years or more without interval. 

 Ted, whose weight in good condition was just 5lb., 

 appears to have been peculiarly healthy, for he 

 never had a day's illness from the time Mrs. Foster 

 purchased him at Heckmondwike show in 1887. 

 He was withdrawn from the show bench in 1893, 

 having, during his unexampled career, won two 

 hundred and sixty-five first prizes. Last summer 

 Ted's hair was all cropped very close, in order that 

 he could more comfortably run about the house, but 

 as I write in the spring of 1894, it has grown quite 

 long again, and this charming and unique little 

 fellow is still as lively as the proverbial kitten, and 

 as sound as a bell, though approaching nine years 

 of age. 



A Yorkshire Terrier Club was formed in 1886, but 

 owing, as I have already said, to the comparatively 

 few people who keep the variety, it has not made any 

 particularly marked improvement in the variety. It 

 has, however, issued a description, which is as 

 follows : 



