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career, and proved himself the Birmingham champion a 

 second time by taking chief honours there in 1894. 



Pickering Nailer, of considerable merit in many respects, 

 like most of those bred in the district implied by his name, 

 was considered too big — I did not think him 2olb. weight — 

 to please fashionable and fastidious modern taste, but he 

 possessed a great recommendation, to the like of which no 

 other modern representative lays claim. He was said to 

 contain not even the most remote cross of the smooth 

 variety, which may or may not be correct. Those who 

 know his breed do not doubt the truth of this, but for aught 

 we know Old Jester can lay a similar claim, for we are not 

 aware that he contained any of the smooth-coated strains. 

 Nailer was sire of several more than fair animals, Mr. 

 Maxwell's Miss Taylor being the best of them. Brittle 

 (for long resident in the United States), already mentioned 

 as one of our leading wire-hairs, born in the midlands, had 

 one of the hardest of coats, and no dog of his day excelled 

 him in head, ears and correctness of size. A little wide- 

 ness at the shoulders and fore legs and shortness in neck I 

 may say were about his chief defects. Cavendish, Jack Frost, 

 Barton Marvel, Jack's Yarn, Liffey, Dr. Beatty's Foiler, 

 Tees Nap, Tees Topper, Lord Edward, Dirleton Nettle, and 

 Master Broom, deserve special mention, but before all will 

 come the acknowledged champion bitch of her day, Mr. 

 SutclifTe's Quantock Nettle. Since her debut at the Kennel 

 Club Show as a puppy in 1887, where she was exhibited by 

 her breeder, Mr. H. A. W. Aylesbury, Bishop's Lydeard, up 

 to her retirement three or four years later, she was scarcely 

 ever beaten by one of her own sex, and, with the exception 

 of the rather large size of her ears, little fault could be 

 found with her. Built much on the lines of Briggs, though 



