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and following them, classes were provided at two or 

 three shows, but such were not successful in 

 unearthing the true article, and the majority of the 

 awards went to miniature Airedale terriers, certainly 

 dogs whose dimensions were too great to allow them 

 to perform their work satisfactorily in a badger or fox 

 earth, and classes provided for similar terriers a 

 dozen years before met with little support. 



Some little time ago, I was much struck with a 

 number of terriers in the possession of Mr. J. H. B. 

 Cowley, of Callipers, near King's Langley. I do 

 not know that I ever came across any little dogs 

 that more appealed to me. They were mostly white 

 or marked like a fox terrier, their coats were hard 

 and wiry, without fluffiness about them, and they 

 were short on the leg, nearly as much so as a 

 Scottish terrier, and their heads and jaws were long 

 and powerful, almost out of proportion to the size of 

 their bodies. They had drop ears, but like most 

 long, heavily-bodied dogs, were inclined to be crooked 

 on their fore legs. I have not of late seen any 

 strain of terrier which better deserves perpetuating 

 than this of Mr. Cowley's. They are very game, 

 are kept for their legitimate work of assisting at 

 underground work where badger and fox are 

 concerned, and are adepts at killing rats and other 

 vermin. I need hardly say that they abound in 



