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present day, had a considerable dash of " smooth-coated 

 blood " in them. Bred by Mr. Warwick, of Penrith, Roper's 

 Nutcrack was by Ashton Trumpeter, by Ashton Trumps, 

 by Pitcher ; his dam is without pedigree, but she is said to 

 have come from Newcastle-on-Tyne, and was anything but 

 up to show form. Prompter's dam Moss was a good little 

 bitch, very much after the stamp of the late Jack Frost, but 

 even more cobbily built, and his sire Little Swell was by 

 Halifax Swell, by Mr. Luke Turner's Spice. 



As stated early in this chapter, the wire-haired terrier 

 has made great progression towards popularity during the 

 past half dozen years, greater care and pains being taken 

 in mating and crossing the various strains. With his 

 increasing popularity his value as a marketable commodity 

 has increased, and at the time I am writing there are a 

 dozen dogs whose owners would not take a couple of 

 hundred pounds apiece for them. Some exhibitors are 

 contented to purchase the best terriers, whilst others try to 

 breed them. Perhaps the most notable dog of all is Go 

 Bang, who, after doing yeoman service for Mr. G. Raper 

 in this country, was sold to Mr. G. M. Carnochan, of New 

 York, for the record price for any terrier of 500/. What 

 Go Bang is in the flesh will be seen from the drawing on 

 the adjoining page, where he appears in conjunction with 

 his son Hands Up, a shapely, handsome terrier, bred by 

 Mr. Reginald Mayhew in New York. The latter is of 

 particular interest as, after being shown successfully in his 

 native country, Hands Up was sent over to England, and, 

 following his quarantine for the stipulated period of four 

 months, appeared at various shows. He was not successful 

 in quite coming out at the top, but was always in the prize 

 lists. Personally I considered him a very good terrier, 



