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At the latter show Nutcrack attracted considerable attention, 

 and several good offers were made for him, one especially 

 by Mr. Rufus Mitchell. Then Sir Humphrey de Trafford 

 stepped in and claimed Nutcrack at his catalogue price 

 as already stated. Since that time the dog has done a 

 great deal of winning, and attained his zenith by secur- 

 ing the 5o/. challenge cup at the Derby Fox Terrier Show 

 last year, though later at Birmingham he was defeated by 

 Jack St. Leger. 



Most of these terriers of Mr. Welburn's, all of them in 

 fact, like pretty w r ell all other leading wire-hairs of the 

 present day, have a considerable dash of "smooth-coated 

 blood" in them. Bred by Mr. Warwick, of Penrith, Roper's 

 Nutcrack is by Ashton Trumpeter, by Ashton Trumps, by 

 Pitcher ; his dam is without pedigree, but she came from 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne. Prompter's dam Moss was a good 

 little bitch, very much after the stamp of the late Jack 

 Frost, but even more cobbily built, and his sire Little Swell 

 was by Halifax Swell, by Mr. Luke Turner's Spice. 



So much for the wire-haired fox terrier as he is found in 

 this country A.D. 1895, and the best of the bench winners 

 have been or are still owned by Mr. W. Carrick (brother 

 to the respected master of the Carlisle Otter Hounds), 

 the late Mr. Donald Graham, Mr. Harding Cox, Lord 

 Lonsdale, Mr. Lindsay Hogg, Mr. R. F. Mayhew (now 

 in America), Mr. A. Maxwell, Mr. J. W. Corner, Sir 

 Humphrey de Trafford, Mr. A. Damarell, Mr. S. E. Shirley, 

 Mr. Percy Reid, Mr. J. G. Pirn, Mr. A. E. Clear, Mr. C. W. 

 W T harton, Mr. Mark Wood, Mr. F. H. Field, Mr. F. W. 

 Fellowes, Mr. Jack Terry, Mr. H. A. W. Aylesbury, Mr. M. 

 Hazlerigg, Mr. F. H. Colmore, Mr. M. Rickaby, Mr. T. 

 Wootton, Messrs. Pease, Mr. S. Castle, Mr. S. Hill, Mr. 



