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awarded but 86. Personally, I considered the latter quite 

 a class ahead of the former. Dorcas' head stuffed and 

 mounted, hanging on the walls of the Kennel Club, in 

 Cleveland-row, does her scant justice. 



Messrs. Bewley and Carson, who resided in Liverpool, 

 about this time were going the circuit of the shows, and by 

 the aid of Quiz won a great number of prizes. This was 

 an unusually nice terrier in every way, though not of a 

 fashionable pedigree (being by Watty Midge, whatever 

 they were), nor am I quite certain that, in 1871, he was not 

 the best terrier of his year. Mr. N. Archer, who bred him 

 at Stourbridge, was more than once present at the big 

 shows with some dog better than common the bitch 

 Diamond for instance, though there was some trouble about 

 her ears. Mr. Gamon, of Chester, did honour to that city 

 by producing many of the best dogs of his day. His tan- 

 headed Chance, which was found suffocated in his box at 

 Birmingham in 1870, was, whatever any one says to the 

 contrary, about as perfect in his variety as anything we 

 have seen. His coat, perhaps a little fine, was close, and 

 the skin could scarcely be found underneath it ; his ex- 

 pression and form were perfect. The terrier most like him 

 is Belgrave Joe, particulars of whom will be found later 

 on, when he was the property of Mr. Luke Turner, of 

 Leicester. By careful selection Mr. Gamon had formed a 

 valuable kennel, and great regret was expressed at its 

 dispersal some few years later. 



Quite a sensational dog of his day was Mr. Leon Binney's 

 Mac, a terrier of the handsome type, who came second to 

 Venture at Laycock's Dairy Yard, where the Islington dog 

 show was held in 1869. Many thought the Manchester 

 dog should have won, and dying soon after there was no 



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