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extraordinary offer of " a carriage and pair of horses" for 

 the dog, which was refused. A short time before, Mr. 

 Welburn had purchased from Mr. C. W. Wharton his 

 champion Bushey Broom for 150/. on behalf of Mr. H. L. 

 Hopkins, who had also heard a favourable account of 

 Prompter. Finally Mr. Hopkins gave Bushey Broom and 

 70/. for the " new dog," who thus in reality was sold for 

 the equivalent of 220/., which is doubtless the most money 

 ever paid for a terrier of this variety. 



Mr. Welburn next purchased two brothers called Propeller 

 and Prompter, with which he won many prizes, the latter 

 at Gloucester, under Mr. Vicary, being placed over Mr. 

 Toomer's Russley Toff, a dog which later as D'Orsay 

 attained such celebrity, and about whom I have already 

 written. The owner of the Beverley Fox Terrier Kennels 

 did not find any more similar plums until the commencement 

 of 1893, when at Derby he came across Roper's Nutcrack, 

 in such bad condition that Mr. Pirn failed to give him any 

 prize at all. However, Mr. Welburn purchased the dog for 

 20/. from Mr. Holmes, of Sunderland, got it into condition, 

 and entered it successfully under Mr. James Taylor at St. 

 Helens, then at Manchester under Mr. Doyle, both in 1894. 

 At the latter show Nutcrack attracted considerable atten- 

 tion, and several good offers were made for him, one 

 especially by Mr. Rufus Mitchell. Then Sir Humphrey de 

 Trafford stepped in and claimed Nutcrack at his catalogue 

 price of 150/., and, after winning a large number of minor 

 prizes, attained his zenith by securing the 50/. challenge 

 cup at the Derby Fox Terrier Show, though later at Birming- 

 ham he was defeated by Jack St. Leger. 



Most of these terriers of Mr. Welburn's, all of them in 

 fact, like pretty well most other leading wire-hairs of the 



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