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and head, not an unusual colour then, but seldom seen 

 nowadays. At Liverpool Show in 1889 a dog named 

 Carlisle Young Venture similarly marked was benched, 

 and the late Mr. Donald Graham, who up to the time of 

 his death, which occurred in 1891, was one of our oldest 

 supporters and best judges of the variety, told me it was 

 directly descended from Tip. The latter, a peculiarly 

 heavily muscled dog, would weigh, I fancy, hard on to 

 2olb., he had such a strong back, and powerful bone. 

 His head was a little too short, and his coat, though hard, 

 was scarcely profuse enough. His small ears and de- 

 termined dare-devil look out of his little dark eyes, gave 

 an amount of character that is sadly deficient in the terrier 

 of to-day, who possesses an advantage only on the score of 

 neatness. After changing hands two or three times, Tip, 

 who had been born in 1872, went into Mr. S. E. Shirley's 

 kennels, from whence he visited the shows and did a great 

 deal of winning, but he was always to Venture in the wire 

 hairs what Tartar had been to Old Jock in the smooth 

 variety the bull terrier of the party. 



From the strains of these two dogs have sprung most 

 of the modern so-called wire-haired terriers, but, unfortu- 

 nately, so many crosses have been made with their smooth 

 cousins, that there is little chance of to-day finding the 

 old blood pure and uncontaminated. 



It is said that Mr. Maxwell's Jester and Mr. Ward's 

 Pickering Nailer were, some four years or so ago, the only 

 wire-haired terriers of note which could be said to be of 

 really blue blood, and if this is so, and I believe the statement 

 to be correct, I hope their progeny will continue to be 

 allied to bitches containing no trace of the smooth strain for 

 at the very least four or five generations. 



