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of 1893 and 1894 was the Redmond bitch Dona, and he also had Miss 

 Dollar from Mr. Tinne's kennel, both very good bitches. To the Warren 

 Kennels had come Warren Safeguard, a dog that did the Messrs. Ruther- 

 furd a great deal of good and produced many winners. Another good one 

 that they also advanced to the challenge class was Warren Captious, but 

 Blemton Victor II. held all competitors safe. The New York show of 1895 

 was a red-letter one for the Warren Kennels, as Safeguard was second in his 

 challenge class; Captious won in hers; Daybreak and Captor were second 

 and fourth in open dogs; Capture and Sentence first and third in open 

 bitches; and in puppy and novice classes four firsts, one second and a third 

 all went to dogs with the prefix of Warren. Mr. Reginald Mayhew judged 

 on that occasion. 



Mr. Thayer shortly after this retired from exhibiting and matters 

 became rather quiet in the fox-terrier fancy until Mr. George H. Gooder- 

 ham, of Toronto, got together the beginning of his eventually very strong 

 Norfolk Kennels. The crack of his kennel was Norfolk Veracity, who, 

 over-sized as he undoubtedly was, was such a thorough terrier that it was 

 first or put-him-back-for-size when he came into the ring. As no one put 

 him back we had as our best fox terrier a dog that we were told weighed 

 twenty-one pounds, and was tall at that. Of quite a different stamp was 

 Claudian, brother to Claude Duval who came over later quite a gentle- 

 man's dog in style and manners, yet a terrier in every way. He won in 

 the novice and open at New York in 1897, and in the limit in 1898, but was 

 beaten by Veracity in the open class. As a companion to Veracity Mr. 

 Gooderham had Handicraft, a rare quality bitch, particularly good in head 

 but somewhat long in loin or in the couplings, but nevertheless the best 

 bitch of her day till True Blue was bred at the same kennels and started on 

 her great career. 



After a year of the Norfolk Kennels the struggle for first place was 

 confined to the efforts of that and the Warren Kennels, but'there was no 

 period in the history of the fox terrier in this country when there were more 

 exhibitors. It was a time when there was a fair prospect of getting "some 

 of the money" with a good dog, and we note that in the dog-puppy class at 

 New York in 1899 sixteen owners were competing, fifteen in the novice class 

 and nine in the limit class, which is in marked contrast to what has been 

 seen recently. At this show Claude Duval was exhibited by George Raper. 

 Exactly the counterpart of Claudian in his white body and black-and-tan 



