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A short resume of the connecting links between the 

 best wire-haired terriers from that time until the present 

 may be interesting, and from Broom to Mr. G. F. 

 Richardson's Bramble, who took rank as one of the best 

 of her variety, is not a great leap. Her size was her 

 one fault, she being a well-made, strongly backed bitch, 

 scaling well on to 2olb. weight. She was a grand-daughter 

 of Shirley's Tip, and following her may be mentioned 

 Young Broom, who, though by no means a good one to 

 look at, has likewise left his mark in another direction, 

 by being the sire of Mr. Colmore's (Burton-on-Trent) 

 Turk. Then there pops in Jack Terry's (Nottingham) 

 Pincher, and this animal, though moderate in appearance, 

 through Gyp became the grandsire of Burton Wild Briar. 

 Mr. Lindsay Hogg's (Middlesex) Topper, a successful 

 terrier on the bench, is a common enough name in modern 

 pedigrees, as is that of his sire Sir W. Johnstone's Topper, 

 the latter through Mr. Richardson's Splinter. The year 

 after Mr. Hogg's dog had made his debut, Birch and 

 Thorn appeared, and some breeders consider that the 

 fine terrier-like expression, lovely eyes, and general 

 quality possessed by Brittle (a dog that went to America, 

 but when the property of Mr. Reginald F. Mayhew in this 

 country most successful on the bench) are inherited from 

 this Thorn (who may be better known as Spike), and which 

 in turn Brittle had so often transferred to his progeny. 



With the exception of Cleveland Laddie (one of the 

 fine charactered Yorkshire strains), Badger, and Brush, few 

 good terriers were produced for some time, until possibly 

 1880, when Balance, Oakleigh Topper, Teazle, Toiler, 

 Victor, Bundle, Nellie II., and Nellie III. (important as 

 regards Vora's pedigree), and Balance were all introduced 



