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On that occasion there were two classes for the breed, with seventeen 

 dogs and an equal number of bitches, totals which compare very well with 

 what we have had of late of this breed. The winner was a white, black- 

 and-tan dog named Shot, owned by Mr. James Mortimer, who then had 

 opportunities of picking up dogs brought over from England, and had a few 

 terriers and one or two bulldogs with which he won quite a number of prizes 

 Now we know him as the equal of any all-around judge that ever stepped 

 into a ring, one whom no owner willing to accord the right of personal 

 opinion declines to show under, and in no position is he more acceptable 

 than when judging terriers. Mr. F. R. Hitchcock, who was afterward 

 well known as a pointer and setter owner, but is all for racehorses now, 

 Was second with an imported dog called Bounce; and the brothers J. and 

 Prescott Lawrence came third with Paulo. In the bitch class the late Lewis 

 Rutherfurd took first and second with Active and Chance, the former 

 winning the championship at New York in 1881. Mr. Winthrop Ruther- 

 furd was not so successful as his brother, neither of his entries getting any 

 mention. The classes contained nothing approaching class, but at the top 

 there were some fair terriers, followed by a very scratch company. The 

 judging could not have been very good on the whole, for we notice that a 

 bitch entered as Tip, by Mr. R. Gibson, of Canada, only got commended. 

 We judged this bitch a few months later, and gave her first and special for 

 the best fox terrier at Toronto; at New York in 1881 she won in the cham- 

 pion class, beating Active, but we find from our catalogue of the 1881 show 

 that our fancy was for the third competitor, Tussle, who with Active was 

 shown by L. and W. Rutherfurd, the fraternal partnership which lasted for 

 so many years, until the death of the elder brother. 



Mr. Gibson's Tip, or Tipsey as she was by rights, was a neat, cobby 

 bitch, smart and terrier-like, but she had bad feet and was too fine in coat. 

 The winning dog in the champion class was the Rutherfurds' Bowstring, 

 then six years old. He was quite a large dog for those days, when they ran 

 to eighteen or nineteen pounds as the top weight. He stood high on the leg 

 and was a stockily built dog. The winner in the open class was Moslem II., 

 one of the large kennel of dogs Mr. C. H. Mason had just brought over from 

 England. He was quite the best fox terrier in the show a small, smart 

 dog, that would be turned out of the ring as out of place amid the big ones 

 we have become accustomed to, yet this dog had won many prizes and was 

 an English champion, or at least had won in champion classes there. Next 



