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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



of Bolton, who owned a large kennel of 

 this variety of terrier, and who joined 

 with his townsman, Joe Walker, and with 

 Bill Pearson in raising the breed to popu- 

 larity in Lancashire. Bill Pearson was 

 the breeder of Tim, who was considered 

 the best terrier of his time, a dog of 14 lb., 

 with a brilliant white coat, the darkest of 

 eyes, and a perfect black nose. Tim was 

 the founder of Mr. Roocroft's kennel, and 

 was the winner of some sixty first prizes 

 and championships. Concerning his early 

 recollections of the breed Mr. Roocroft wrote 

 in 1880 : 



" The first good one I remember appeared, 

 I believe, at the first Belle Vue show, 

 Manchester. She was a deaf bitch, but her 

 origin I know nothing about. This was 

 about sixteen years since (1863). The follow- 

 ing year brought out the champion Tim, 

 then shown by old Bill Pearson, which 

 some time afterwards came into my posses- 

 sion, and from this dog I produced the 

 strain that I have been so very successful 



up in Manchester, and which showed in a 

 marked manner a cross of the Snap-dog 

 breed, and you remember all his strain 



MR. R. HARRISON'S RAN J ITSIN HJI. 

 Photograph by Hignett ami Son, Lostock. 



with since I first brought them out. I 

 consider Tim was not only the first champion 

 specimen, but the best terrier we ever had, 

 and was really the foundation of good 

 terriers. Among others Tim was sire to 

 Swindell's Gem, out of a bitch he picked 



MR. W. BALLANTYNE'S CH. MORNING STAR. 

 Photograph by C. Reid, Wishaw. 



showed the same, more or less. Tim 

 was the best terrier I ever saw." 



It is apparent that the Whippet was 

 largely used as a cross with the Eng- 

 lish Terrier, which may account to a 

 great extent for the decline of terrier 

 character in the breed. Wiser breeders 

 had recourse to the more closely allied 

 Bull-terrier ; Mr. Shirley's prize win- 

 ning Purity was by Tim out of a 

 Bull - terrier bitch, and there is no 

 doubt that whatever stamina remains 

 in the breed has been supported by 

 this cross. 



Many of the best of our White Ter- 

 riers are kennelled in Scotland, and 

 Mr. W. Ballantyne, of Edinburgh, has 

 been particularly successful as a breeder 

 and exhibitor. His Ch. Queen was 

 famous as a prize winner some little 

 time ago, and his Ch. Morning Star 

 has never been excelled for the qualities 

 most approved and most earnestly sought 

 for in the breed. Silver Blaze and Rising 

 Star are others of his terriers especially 

 noteworthy. Mr. John E. Walsh, of Halifax, 

 the founder of the White English Terrier 



