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on shorter limbs and longer in body, her chest was unusually 

 deep, she stood on straight legs, and was unusually power- 

 ful for an animal of her size. She was a daughter of 

 Trick's from Lady Hazel, by Filbert— Lady Relish, by Raby 



Pickle. 



An oddly-named terrier was the above-named Filbert, 

 previously known as Pulborough Jumbo, a black-headed, 

 determined looking, rather leggy dog, who, from being 

 entered in a catalogue at something like 7/., came to be 

 sold for 100/. He did considerable winning in his day 

 (about 1886-7), and a person, who told me he was his 

 breeder, related some strange stories as to its career. Jumbo 

 was a cross-bred dog, said the man, and should have been 

 drowned as a puppy ; somehow he escaped that fate, as he 

 did a second time when the cord was around his neck. Mr. 

 Nutt got hold of him, showed him successfully, and then 

 sold him as stated. Some dogs, like some human beings 

 have their ups and downs in this life, but Jumbo was a 

 commoner in appearance, though a game-looking terrier, 

 and I need scarcely say that his pedigree is not to be found 

 in the stud book. 



Another good dog was the late Mr. E. Welburn's 

 Prompter, whose wins included that of the Fox Terrier 

 Club's challenge cup, but the sensational wire-haired terrier 

 of 1894 was undoubtedly the young dog Roper's Nutcrack, 

 which Mr. E. Welburn introduced at Manchester, where, after 

 winning all before him under Mr. Doyle, was claimed by 

 Sir Humphrey de Trafford at the catalogued price of 150/. 

 This dog was bred at Penrith, but his blood was not 

 fashionable, for which a terrier is not much the worse. 

 He was rather heavily built, and, to my mind, did not 

 possess the character shown by such dogs as Tack, Jack 



