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high enough on the leg nor hard in coat. I am now speaking of those at 

 our first shows in 1874 and 1875. 



"The first show in England that made a class for our breed was Brigh- 

 ton, 1876. Mr. Jamison of Belfast, and Mr. Mawdsley of Liverpool, won, 

 the only exhibitors, the former winning both prizes. Glasgow in 1875 

 was the first Scottish Show to help us. Mr. A. T. Arrol, who had several 

 goodish ones, was probably the first Scottish exhibitor. 



"The first good specimens I remember were Mr. George Jamison's 

 Sport (5,761), first Glasgow, 1875, and illustrated in your paper the same 

 year, with drop-ears (several of our present winners' pedigrees go back to 

 him), and Mr. Norton's Fly (3,524), first Newtownards, 1874, dam of 

 several winners in 1875 an d 1876. Mr. Smith's Spuds (6,846), cropped, 

 the best we had yet seen, came out at Cork, 1876, and then found her way 

 into Mr. Jamison's kennels; he won with her and another bitch, Banshee 

 (too thick in head), at Brighton, 1876, and 1877 at the Kennel Club, who 

 had also given the breed a class for the first time. I well remember leading 

 Spuds, and telling Colonel Owen, the judge, that I thought she should have 

 beaten Banshee. I then bought her, and she was my first show Irish terrier, 

 and won first at the Kennel Club Show, beating Banshee, and first Bristol, 

 1877, etc.; she was rather large, but fit to be in it even now. A nice-sized 

 dog, Mr. Graham's Sporter (7,844), drop-ears, was also shown in 1877. 

 Afterwards Mr. Krehl's well-known winner, and just what we want to-day, 

 with good, bright, red, hard coat; it may here be mentioned that Mr. Graham 

 still sticks to small-sized ones; my idea is the happy medium. 



"1878. We first saw Dr. Carey's Champion Sting (cropped), a bitch 

 who lasted marvellously; I judged her at Armagh, 1882; her legs and feet 

 were as good as ever, although twelve years old; she was wheaten in colour. 

 Mr. Waterhouse's Killiney Boy, a rare good little cropped one, rather low 

 on the leg; I gave him his first prize at Belfast, 1879; he afterwards proved 

 himself a very valuable sire. 



"1879. I think everyone will agree that the mother and star of the 

 breed (Erin, 9,704) was found by Mr. Graham in her hamper before being 

 benched at Dublin Show; she had come from Ballymena, County Antrim; 

 he bought her out at the Alexandra Palace, 1879, winning first and Irish 

 Terrier Club Challenge Cup the first time competed for, which trophy she 

 afterwards won outright for my brother, and was, I think, never beaten. 

 Most of my readers have seen her, but for those who have not I think her 



