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surely to have become more popular than is the case, 

 and, although occasionally one has heard of some show 

 dog with this Devonshire blood on his grandsire's or 

 grandam's side, the stud books do not quite reliably 

 prove such to be the case. A dog like either Tip or 

 Trump, if as good looking as described, would surely 

 have been fitted for the show bench, and if a bit ragged 

 in jacket and a trifle heavy at the shoulders such defects 

 would not have been quite fatal to success in the eyes 

 of the right sort of judges. 



That this blood is valued highly at the present day I 

 have every reason to believe, as I hear that a few such 

 terriers at this moment remain in the West of England. 

 Mr. C. G. Archer, of Trelaske, Cornwall, still keeps a couple 

 or two, and puppies from this strain now and then find their 

 way to other parts of the country. A gentleman has com- 

 municated with me as the possessor of just such a dog 

 as Trump, described on another page. Still, he does not 

 find that strain as it were "nick" well with others, and 

 he was consequently anxious to obtain some other of the 

 Devonshire cross in order to maintain the breed in all 

 its excellence. Mr. Archer tells me that he has had his 

 terriers for over thirty years, first obtaining them from 

 his friend the Rev. J. Russell, and from his uncle, Mr. 

 Walter Radcliffe, of Warleigh Hall. The breed has been 

 kept pure and distinct, the dogs weigh i81b., the bitches 

 from I5lb. to i61b. ; they are wire-haired, and in colour, 

 white, with more or less black and tan markings, and 

 without the slightest appearance of bulldog strain. Their 

 owner gives them an excellent character when he says 

 they are very hardy, inasmuch as they will go to ground 

 anywhere, run all day with hounds, and for pluck and 



