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sprung from an eminent North Yorkshire strain like 

 Jester could), his influence remains to this day, and many 

 of his descendants have proved as good terriers as man 

 could desire, i.e., so far as looks are concerned. 



A short resume of the connecting links between the 

 best wire-haired terriers from that time until the present, 

 may be interesting, and from Broom to Mr. G. F. 

 Richardson's Bramble, who took rank as one of the best 

 of her variety, is not a great leap. Her size was her 

 one fault, she being a well-made strongly-backed bitch, 

 scaling well on to 2olb. weight. She was a granddaughter 

 of Shirley's Tip, and following her may be mentioned 

 Young Broom, who, though by no means a good one to 

 look at, has likewise left his mark in another direction, 

 by being the sire of Mr. Colmore's (Burton-on-Trent) 

 Turk. Then there pops in Jack Terry's (Nottingham) 

 Pincher, and this animal, though moderate in appearance, 

 through Gyp became the grandsire of Burton Wild Briar. 

 Mr. Lindsay Hogg's (Middlesex) Topper, a successful 

 terrier on the bench, is a common enough name in modern 

 pedigrees, as is that of his sire Sir W. Johnstone's Topper, 

 the latter through Mr. Richardson's Splinter. The year 

 after Mr. Hogg's dog had made his debut, Birch and 

 Thorn appeared, and some breeders consider that the 

 fine terrier-like expression, lovely eyes, and general 

 quality possessed by Brittle (a dog now in America, but 

 when the property of Mr. Reginald F. Mayhew in this 

 country most successful on the bench) are inherited from 

 this Thorn (who may be better known as Spike), and which 

 in turn Brittle has so often transferred to his progeny. 



With the exception of Cleveland Laddie (one of the 

 fine charactered Yorkshire strains). Badger and Brush, few 



