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and perhaps his frequent removals from one district to 

 another have been against him as an exhibitor ; still there 

 occasionally crop up some terriers better than usual 

 bearing the prefix of " Dudley/' this being the name he 

 has registered at the Kennel Club. Mr. Astley, like Mr. 

 Raper, has judged in New York, where no doubt his name 

 is as well known in " fox terrier circles " as it is with us. 



Almost every district in Great Britain contains at the 

 present time some one or other who, to the emolument of 

 the railway companies more than his own, shows terriers. 

 I think a fair list of the leading kennels of smooths has 

 already been given, but in addition to those mentioned as 

 former or present owners or breeders of smooth-coated 

 terriers the wire-hairs shall have a chapter to themselves 

 are Mr. W. Arkwright (near Chesterfield), Messrs. Hill 

 and Ashton (Sheffield), Rev. C. T. Fisher (Over Kellet), 

 Rev. Owen Smith (Southport), the Messrs. Pirn (Ireland), 

 Mr. J. B. Dale (Darlington), Mr. Herbert Bright (Scar- 

 borough), Mr. C. Burgess (Spilsby), Mr. J. F. Scott 

 (Carlisle), Mr. J. C. Coupe (now in Australia), Mr. T. 

 Bassett (Surrey), Mr. J. R. Whittle (Middlesex), Capt. 

 Openshaw (Lancashire), Mr. A. R. Wood, Capt. Frazer, 

 Mr. L. P. C. Astley, Mr. F. Waddington (Durham), Mr. 

 Jack Terry (Nottingham), Mr. A. Hargreaves, Mr. J. J. 

 Stott (Manchester), Mr. R. Chorley (Kendal), Mr. D. H. 

 Owen (Shrewsbury), Mr. A. Ashton (Cheshire), the Hon. 

 Gerald Lascelles (Yorkshire), Mr. T. Hopkinson, Mr. 

 Joe Forman, Mr. W. Hulse (Nottingham), Mr. F. S. H. 

 Dyer-Bennet (Stourbridge), Mr. C. R. Leach (South- 

 port), Mrs. E. Lawrence (Usk), Mr. T. B. Sykes 

 (Lancashire), Mr. A. W. Emms (Leicester), Mr. J. A. 

 Whitaker (Lancashire), Messrs. Castle and Shannon, Mr. 



