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money could not induce him to part with the dog we would have made every 

 effort to buy him. He was thoroughly Irish in type, well-built and eminently 

 sound in coat. His line is as much of an outcross as one can get from 

 Bolton Woods Mixer and Breda Muddler at the present time and get a 

 winning strain, for he is three removes from Muddler, reaching him through 

 his sire's dam, that excellent bitch, Champion Blue Nettle. Colin's dam 

 is a daughter of Bolton Woods Mixer, but her dam and also the line of 

 Colin's grandsire are outcrosses. Mile End Muddler is another good dog 

 of the Breda Muddler line, but he does not seem to have been at all phenom- 

 enally successful as a sire, in fact there has not been a dog in England since 

 Bolton Woods Mixer's day that has filled his place. We note, however, 

 that Mr. Jowett's Crow Gill Mike seems to be making himself conspicuous. 



It is now time to turn attention to the Irish terrier in America, the 

 history beginning with the advent of Kathleen, the bitch we brought over 

 in 1880 and showed in the miscellaneous class at New York that year. 

 Kathleen came from the middle counties of Ireland, and her pedigree did not 

 extend beyond her sire and dam. She had won a third at Dublin before we 

 bought her from Mr. Graham, and for us she won two firsts and a second- 

 She was bred to Mr. Krehl's Sporter, and when lying off Staten Island she 

 gave birth to the first Irish terrier puppies born in this country, one of which 

 won a second at New York in 1881 and when sent to England with his dam 

 a few months later had his name changed and won a prize or two there. 

 Dr. J. S. Niven, of London, Ont., was the next to import a few of the 

 breed, and his Norah and Aileen were winners in their day. Mr. Lawrence 

 Timpson had one or two during the eighties, including the dog Garryowen, 

 by Paddy 11. out of Erin, but there was nothing here of any account to 

 produce good results from this dog. Mr. J. Coleman Drayton also imported 

 Spuds when she was eight years old and showed her so fat that she had not 

 the slightest resemblance to the flyer we had seen five or six years before. 



Mr. Mitchell Harrison, who was king-pin among collie exhibitors, 

 bought, when in Ireland in 1887, a brace of Mr. Graham's terriers, a 

 fairly good dog named Breda Jim, and a nice quality, rather small bitch 

 named Breda Tiney. Mr. Charles Thompson, also of Philadelphia, at the 

 same time got the bitch Geesela and had her bred to Benedict before bringing 

 her home with him. From this line came the various Geeselas that have 

 appeared at Philadelphia shows, Breda Tiney won at New York in 1888, 

 but Breda Jim was beaten by another Graham dog named Greymount, a 



