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and twenty-seven English members. Of the entire number we believe we 

 are the only one on the list who is showing Irish terriers at the present time. 

 A good many of the English members were merely friends of Mr. Krehl 

 and never owned one of the breed, but they started the club at any rate and 

 others took their places. One of the important steps early taken by the 

 club was in the direction of natural ears, the credit of which is due Mr. 

 Krehl, who pushed the original movement and made it easy for those who 

 ultimately got the Kennel Club to accede to the request to prohibit cropping 

 after a specified date, a step which eventually led to the prohibition being 

 extended to all breeds. 



At that early date there were a good many uncropped dogs. Mr. 

 Jamison's old dog Sport had natural ears, so had Mr. Krehl's Sporter and 

 his Moya Doolan, but these were mainly dogs picked up here and there 

 that had not been bred in kennels where show dogs were raised. The 

 regulars held out for cropping, in the main, Graham being very much against 

 any change as spoiling the look of the dogs. When the rule was passed 

 all had to obey it, and the rule was followed in this country when the Irish 

 Terrier Club of America was organised. In those old days we made a 

 fuss about immaterials, as all novices do. We had it in other breeds and 

 while St. Bernard men thought everything about dew claws we discussed the 

 question of disqualifying dogs with anything but black toe nails, how much 

 white might be permitted on a dog's breast and trivial points of that kind, 

 just as new beginners do to this day. After English exhibitors learned more 

 they went for real terriers and the once burning question of the colour of toe 

 nails was buried, though it still survives in the standard as a relic of the past. 



We will now give the "recollections" of Mr. J. J. Pim, which must 

 have appeared originally at the close of 1891, seemingly, for he apparently 

 wrote on dogs shown a few months before. We extract the communication 

 from the Irish Terrier Review of July, 1905, which fails to give the original 

 source of publication, though stating that it is republished by Mr. Pirn's 

 permission: 



IRISH TERRIERS PAST AND PRESENT 



"Having been asked to give 'my recollections' on the above, I have 

 tried to do so from memory, and must ask my readers to excuse any mistakes. 



"I always considered the Irish terrier of the North of Ireland the 

 truer breed, as with few exceptions those from the South were neither 



