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accompany the best class of coats. Brindles were not un- 

 common. Some were tall on the leg, some short ; some were 

 lanky and others cobby; many were very small. There 

 were classes given at a Dublin show in 1874 for Irish Terriers 

 under 9 Ib. weight. 



Jamison's Sport is an important dog historically, for various 

 reasons. He was undoubtedly more akin to our present type 

 than any other Irish Terrier of his time of which there is 

 record. His dark ears were uncropped at a period when cropp- 

 ing was general ; his weight approximated to our modern 

 average. He was an all coloured red, and his legs were of a 

 length that would not now be seriously objected to. But in 

 his day he was not accepted as typical, and he was not 

 particularly successful in the show ring. The distinguished 

 terrier of his era was Burke 's Killeney Boy, to whom, 

 and to Mr. W. Graham's bitch Erin, with whom he was 

 mated, nearly all the pedigrees of the best Irish Terriers 

 of to-day date back. Erin was said to be superior in all 

 respects to any of her breed previous to 1880. In her first 

 litter by Killeney Boy were Play Boy, Pretty Lass, Poppy, 

 Gerald, Pagan II., and Peggy, every one of whom became 

 famous. More than one of these showed the black markings of 

 their granddam, and their progeny for several generations 

 were apt to throw back to the black-and-tan, grey, or brindle 

 colouring. Play Boy and Poppy were the best of Erin's first 

 litter. The dog's beautiful ears, which were left as Nature 

 made them, were transmitted to his son Bogie Rattler, who 

 was sire of Bachelor and Benedict, the latter the most successful 

 stud dog of his time. Poppy had a rich red coat, and this 

 colour recurred with fair regularity in her descendants. Red, 

 which had not at first been greatly appreciated, came gradu- 

 ally to be the accepted colour of an Irish Terrier's jacket. 

 Occasionally it tended towards flaxen ; occasionally to a deep 

 rich auburn ; but the black and brindle were so rigidly bred 

 out that by the year 1890, or thereabout, they very seldom 

 recurred. Nowadays it is not often that any other colour 



