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stance. She was a very good bitch except for being a little "smutty" in 

 colour, the thumb-marks on her fetlocks not being sharply outlined, but 

 running; into the tan too much. Some six months or more after we had sent 



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this bitch to Mr. Campbell we had a letter asking about the former owner, 

 because Squaw had coated out again without any thumb-marks at all. 

 In reply we assured him that Mr. Martin would never for a moment think 

 or permit of tampering with any of his dogs; that we had seen Squaw 

 repeatedly and that she had always had the smutty forelegs we had told him 

 of, and no one would think of putting on thumb-marks such as she had if 

 any faking was to be done. That satisfied Mr. Campbell, but the mystery 

 regarding the thumb-marks became more puzzling when the following year 

 they came back again much as they had been originally. Mr. Campbell was 

 then the leading terrier exhibitor of Montreal, and up to three years ago 

 was showing some of his old stock and winning. We never saw Squaw after 

 she went to him, but no one who knows him would think for a moment of 

 doubting his word, and we had more than one letter from him on the subject. 

 In the fall of 1880, the year Nettle was shown, the first of the now very 

 important Toronto Exhibition shows was held, and there was a very nice 

 medium-sized terrier named Needle, shown there by Jimmy Heasley, and 

 by Wheel of Fortune II. out of Queen III., so there was nothing lacking in 

 the way of breeding to add to the good looks. " Jimmy" was Ned Hanlan's 

 trusted assistant when the Canadian champion went to England in 1879 

 to demonstrate that he could beat the best scullers there, and Heasley had 

 but one wish in the world next to seeing Hanlon win his races to take 

 back to Toronto a good black and tan terrier. This desire he told to every- 

 one, so that Jimmy and his terrier became quite a joke. Finally one 

 of the visitors from this side of the Atlantic inserted an advertisement in a 

 Newcastle paper that Mr. James T. Heasley wanted to purchase a good 

 terrier, and dogs were to be shown to him at the Ords Arms, Scotswood 

 Suspension Bridge, Hanlan's headquarters at the upper end of the course. 

 We had come over from Manchester by night train to see how things were 

 going, and driving up the river road became more and more puzzled by the 

 number of men we passed accompanied by dogs terriers of every description. 

 Finally at the Ords Arms there was quite a gathering of men and terriers, 

 but Jimmy had long since disappeared, having made his escape over the back 

 wall and up the hill to the rear of the hotel. He got a dog eventually, and 

 Needle was one well worth bringing over. 



