THE AIREDALE'S HISTORY W 



Brown, who' mated his Cholmondeley Mona to 

 Clipper, a good dog, but no wonder. There were 

 nine in the litter, and Mr. Brown showed Marvel, 

 whom he called Warfield Victor, in a 3 Selling 

 Class, where he was placed second, being sadly 

 out of condition. " Jack " Holgate saw the 

 rough diamond, bought it, and resold it to Messrs. 

 Mills and Buckley, the famous Clonmel firm. 

 Marvel beat all of his time dogs and bitches 

 and won eighteen championships. Eventually 

 he came to America, along with Ch. Clonmel Sen- 

 sation and Clonmel Veracity. He was by far the 

 best Airedale seen up to his time, a dog hard to 

 fault, even in " the light of modern criticism." 

 He proved as wonderful a sire as he was a show 

 crack, and much of real terrier style in the breed 

 to-day is due to him. 



A contemporary of Marvel's was Ch. Dumbar- 

 ton Lass, who also came to this side of the At- 

 lantic to the kennels of Mr. Joseph Laurin, in 

 Montreal. She was bred by Capt. Baird Smith, 

 who benched her at Woolwich in poor condition. 

 Mr. A. E. Jennings, whose kennels were then 

 paramount, bought her and showed her for three 

 years, when she went to Mr. Stuart Noble and 

 was later bought by the Canadian fancier. She 

 proved a gold mine as a brood bitch and was per- 

 sonally hard to fault barring her coat. 



