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to give more heed to the hardiness and working capacities 

 of his terriers than he does to their actual appearance. 

 The Carte Blanche he showed at Cheltenham in 1901 I 

 liked immensely. 



One of the bad-coated dogs was Mr. Luke Turner's 

 (Leicester) Spice, a wonder in head and ears and form, but 

 with almost all his tail taken off, and wofully weak in his 

 pasterns, both before and behind. He did a lot of winning 

 in his time, but doctors differed as to his merits, for I 

 remember well enough at one of the Kennel Club shows 

 the Rev. Cecil Legard dismissing him without a card. 

 Ultimately Spice went to America a three figures sale, but 

 did not survive his expatriation long, as one day his kennel 

 companions, a team of deerhounds, resenting his British 

 bounce, killed him. Mr. Turner has had many better 

 terriers, including Patch, a lovely bitch, which, owing to 

 the confusion of names prior to the formation of the 

 Kennel Club Stud Book, often gets mixed up with others 

 of the same name, and thus the credit of her excellence 

 has, perhaps, become divided. Delta was another far above 

 the average ; so was Richmond Liqueur, though a com- 

 parative puppy when she made her debut at the Fylde 

 (Lancashire) Show, in July, 1887, where the best judges 

 pronounced her to be one of the most perfect terriers 

 seen for some time, notwithstanding the fact that her 

 tail, like that of Spice, was almost all cut off. Unfortu- 

 nately, this promising young bitch died before she could 

 make that mark likely to be hers. Richmond Jack was a 

 cast off from the Leicester kennels, but some judges liked 

 him ; I did not, excepting as an ordinary little terrier for a 

 companion. His head was quite incorrect in shape. 



If the Leicester Kennels have to survive through an 



