484 The Dog Book 



ring in the days of Erin and Sporter, he would have got the gate as a mon- 

 strosity. It must be understood that the Full o' Fight photograph is not 

 the dog as he actually was, for it is cut out below the jaw, trimmed down 

 the legs, along the back and down the quarters, and we only use it to show 

 the supposed typical dog of three years ago as compared with the supposed 

 typical dog when the standard was framed, as shown in the drawings of 

 the Erin type. Another thing not to be overlooked in connection with 

 the old photographs we reproduce is that they were taken when animal 

 photography was in its infancy, instantaneous work was then unknown, and 

 it is doubtful if a single photographer in England or Ireland knew the first 

 principles of posing a dog. 



It is not necessary to go into details regarding the growth of the Irish 

 terrier in England, so we will condense matters by saying that Breda Mixer, 

 the puppy mentioned by Mr. Pim as coming out in 1890 and as likely 

 "some day to beat the lot," fulfilled his estimate. Mixer did beat all 

 comers, was chosen to represent the typical Irish terrier when the Irish 

 Terrier Club wanted a sketch of the correct type, and proved himself the 

 great stud dog of the breed. His two sons, Bolton Woods Mixer and Breda 

 Muddler, are still living, and Muddler is not yet past his days of usefulness 

 as a sire, even at his advanced age. 



What descendants they have left from which their successors are 

 to be produced is very uncertain, for at present there is no predominating 

 sire in England. Bolton Woods Mixer's best show son was undoubtedly 

 Straight Tip, now in this country, but though he was as much used at stud 

 as was his sire, his get did not cut such a swathe as did the Bolton Woods 

 Mixer's in the high day of their successes. It is likely that but for the 

 government prohibition against the shipping of dogs from Ireland to Eng- 

 land, the merits of Champion Colin would have received proper recognition. 

 It was to countermine the government order that clever Mr. Graham at once 

 shipped Breda Muddler to England, nearly all of his stud patronage coming 

 from there. With regard to Colin we recall that when the late Mr. Rodman, 

 our Irish Terrier Club secretary, returned from a trip to England and 

 Ireland he told us that he considered Colin the best dog he had seen. When 

 we visited Ireland in 1904 we saw so many good dogs by Colin that, bearing 

 in mind Mr. Rodman's report, we specially visited this dog and although 

 he had not the freshness of youth we do not know of a dog that impressed 

 us more than he did, and but for the positive statement of his owner that 



