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that down to below fourteen pounds. Cornwall Duchess was not over 

 thirteen pounds and Mr. Belmont's Marguerite was no heavier, while 

 Diadem was under fifteen pounds. Of quite a different type from these 

 small toys, as we would now call them, and the stoutly built Olive was 

 Richmond Dazzle, an imported puppy Mr. Thayer showed in 1887. This 

 was a bitch bred by Mr. Raper, by Raby Mixture out of Richmond 

 Puzzle, a medium bitch as to weight, and of the new type of what was form- 

 erly called weedy terriers, but which became the correct thing in a short 

 time. For several recent years it would have been possible to show the best 

 imported dogs in one class and only call upon the judge to decide upon 

 individual merit between a lot of dogs of close resemblance, but such was 

 not the case at the time we are writing of, and still less before that. Every 

 new crack dog that came over was different from the others, and we were 

 all astray as to which of the several styles of English winners was proper, 

 only to have any new opinion upset by the next wonder's different appear- 

 ance. Here we had as competitors Mr. Belmont's thirteen-pounders Mar- 

 guerite and Diadem, Mr. Thayer's eighteen-pound Olive and his light-built 

 sixteen-pound Richmond Dazzle. Mr. Mason called the latter an exaggera- 

 tion of a good type, but that was what we followed from that time on, led 

 by the importations from England which ran that way. Then more sub- 

 stance was added, and finally we got to the stage where fox terriers of about 

 twenty-four pounds were winning. Happily we have returned to some- 

 thing a little more reasonable, and now have a combination of character, 

 shape and size that should last. 



The many importations that we had at that time only accentuated more 

 strongly the failure on the part of home breeders to produce anything fit 

 for comparison with the good English dogs. A dog called Luke, bred by 

 Mr. Hoey, was the best American bred of 1886-7. He was a fair terrier, 

 but plain and lacking quality from a present-time point of view; such a dog 

 as would now get an H. C. card in good company. We can only recall one 

 bitch of any class at about that time among American-breds, and that was 

 Lady Warren Mixture, bred by the late W. T. McAlees of Philadelphia, 

 and by Mr. Thayer's little dog Mixture out of the Rutherfurd bred bitch 

 Warren Lady. The Messrs. Rutherfurd bought and did very well with her 

 as a puppy. She had lots of style and was a gay shower, with a good length 

 of head and racing outline. Another of the coming style of terrier was Mr. 

 Belmont's Safety, a larger bitch than his other named ones. She was quite 



