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giving the dog a sectional name indicative of its being exclusively Welsh. 

 There is, however, no means of changing the name now, except by action 

 of the English Kennel Club, and that it is not likely to undertake at this 

 late day, so that it will have to be accepted as the Welsh terrier in this 



country. 



Mr. Prescott Lawrence, who seemed to have a penchant for acting as 

 one of the pioneers of introduced terrier breeds, was the first exhibitor of 

 Welsh terriers in this country, and to accommodate him the committee of the 

 New York show of 1888 put on an added class for Welsh terriers and he 

 entered T'other and Which. At that early day for Welsh terriers " all coons 

 looked alike " to most of us and it was only by seeing them together that you 

 could tell one from the other of this aptly named brace, for Which was the 

 better of the two by a small margin. The Hornell-Harmony Kennels got 

 a few before the New York show of 189 1 and the entry that year numbered 

 five, with Which leading the best of the Hornell entry. In two years the 

 breed died out entirely and although one or two were shown in 1900 it was 

 not until 1901 that there was any sign of reviving interest, and then came 

 an entry of fifteen in two classes. A little local rivalry seems to have taken 

 hold of two or three exhibitors and the late Mr. Denton and Mr. B. S. 

 Smith, together with the Misses De Coppet, Mr. R. W. C. Ellison of Phila- 

 delphia, and Mr. E. S. Woodward, became interested in Welsh terriers. 

 The opportunity was taken, mainly through the efforts of Mr. Smith, to start 

 a club to foster the breed, and five classes being put on at New York in 1902 

 there was quite a respectable entry. This was added to in 1903, when a 

 total of twenty-five entries was made, and that has been approximately 

 the result at the two succeeding shows. 



A difficulty in the way of progress in this breed was the very erratic 

 judging exhibitors had to put up with, each judge that handled the breed 

 in turn having an opinion that did not harmonise with what had been done 

 by his predecessors. One man wanted a Welsh terrier with a long foreface, 

 while the next one went in for what he called the Welsh expression, and a 

 short head suited him better if he got the right look about it. Another 

 thing was that there was not a great deal of uniformity of type about the dogs, 

 and altogether the work done was not very satisfactory. This is always 

 apt to be the case with a comparatively new breed, especially when dogs 

 are picked up as most of the Welsh importations were. We think that at 

 that time there was also a lack of uniformity in the judging abroad, and this 



