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prove that no little amount of skill and judgment are 

 required to enable a man to make a good selection. Take 

 the dog Prompter, for instance, bred by Mr. W. Beec.roft, of 

 Malton. Mr. Welburn noticed him at Pickering in 1890, 

 where he did not get into the money, owing, doubtless, to 

 bad condition. The dog was then called Little Joe. Mr. 

 Welburn saw good in him, and three days later became his 

 owner for I2/. At Knaresborough a month later Mr. 

 Maxwell awarded him the honours as the best fox terrier in 

 the show, and, after other successes, his owner had the 

 extraordinary offer of " a carriage and pair of horses " for 

 the dog, which was refused. A short time before, Mr. 

 Welburn had purchased from Mr. C. W. Wharton his 

 champion Bushey Broom for I5O/. on behalf of Mr. H. L, 

 Hopkins, who had also heard a favourable account of 

 Prompter. Finally Mr. Hopkins gave Bushey Broom and 

 yo/. for the " new dog," who thus in reality was sold for 

 the equivalent of 22O/., which is doubtless the most money 

 ever paid for a terrier of this variety. 



Mr. Welburn next purchased two brothers called Propeller 

 and Promoter, with which he won many prizes, the former 

 at Gloucester, under Mr. Vicary, being placed over Mr. 

 Toomers Russley Toff, a dog which later as D'Orsay 

 attained such celebrity, and about whom I have already 

 written. The owner of the Beverley Fox Terrier Kennels 

 did not find any more similar plums until the commencement 

 of 1893, when at Derby he came across Roper's Nutcrack 

 in such bad condition that Mr. Pirn failed to give him any 

 prize at all. However, Mr. Welburn purchased the dog for 

 2O/. from Mr. Holmes, of Sunderland, got it into condition, 

 and entered it successfully under Mr. James Taylor at St. 

 Helens, then at Manchester under Mr. Doyle, both in 1894. 



