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in 1892, when he won at Birmingham, the Crystal Palace, 

 and elsewhere. 



The sensational wire-haired terrier of 1894 was un ~ 

 doubtedly the young dog Roper's Nutcrack, which Mr. E. 

 Welburn introduced at Manchester, where, after winning 

 all before him under Mr. J. A. Doyle, was claimed by 

 Sir Humphrey de Trafford at the catalogued price of I5O/. 

 This dog was bred at Penrith, but his blood is not 

 fashionable, for which the terrier is not a bit the worse. 

 He is rather heavily-built, and, to my mind, does not 

 possess the character shown by such dogs as Tack, Jack 

 St. Leger, and others already alluded to. Something of 

 the type of the latter is a young bitch Mr. Luke Turner 

 showed at the Kennel Club's Show in October of the same 

 year in which Nutcrack came into prominence. This was 

 a tan-marked terrier called Charnwood Marion, who made 

 a most successful debut, and, although not in the best 

 of form for the bench, pretty easily disposed of most of 

 her formidable opponents. How good she is will be easily 

 seen from her portrait on a preceding page. 



But I am perhaps rather anticipating, for there are other 

 11 cracks " to note which made an earlier opening Mr. 

 dear's Cribbage, who went to America, and his Jigger, to 

 wit, both of the highest class. Then Cauldwell Nailer has 

 done quite his full share of winning a dog which was pur- 

 chased for about 2O/. by Mr. Thurnall, and afterwards went 

 to Mr. Harding Cox for about six times that sum. He 

 was but second class. Mr. A. Mutter, of Wandsworth, as 

 soon as Lord Edward had retired, brought out another 

 extra good terrier in the form of his pugilistically-named 

 Tipton Slasher. This is one of the stamp of terriers after 

 my own heart, and I do not think any the worse of him for 



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