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points. It is in reality impossible to make 
an inexorable rule about this question of 
size; each class must be judged on its own 
merits. Only quite recently a gentleman, who 
is a well-known judge of smooths, was in- 
trepid enough to lay it down in black and 
white, and cause it to be published to the 
world, that never, no, never would he ever, 
so long as he lived, give a prize again to a 
terrier who scaled more than 17 lb. It 
may be added that this gentleman has since 
judged on several occasions, and it is very 
much to be doubted whether he has in any 
instance—except maybe in puppy classes— 
given a prize to any dog that has not scaled 
more than 17 lb. 
The name of the late Mr. Enoch Welburn 
in connection with the variety under notice 
is known the world over. Mr. Welburn used 
to show mostly for other people, but what- 
ever he showed was always good, and ever 
in excellent form. In his later years he had 
the charge of a famous kennel, that of Mr. 
Roland Philipson, whose recent death in a 
terrible railway accident everyone deplores. 
This kennel was well-nigh invincible at the 
time of Mr. Welburn’s death, and so much 
did the master take to heart the death of 
the man who had served him so well and 
so truly that he never showed any of his 
terriers again, most of them being sold. 
A name that must be mentioned also 
is that of a gentleman who was undoubtedly 
a ‘“‘ Father”? of the Fox-terrier, Mr. Luke 
Turner. Mr. Turner’s name is, of course, 
better known in connection with the smooth 
than the wire-hair variety, but quite shortly 
before his death we find him showing only 
wire-hairs, and among them a very charming 
sound-coated bitch in Charnwood Marion, 
with whom he scored many notable successes. 
The name of Luke Turner will ever be held 
in affectionate remembrance by the writer, 
to whom he was one of the best of friends, 
and to the initiation of whose career as a 
terrier breeder and exhibitor by the gift of 
a beautiful little terrier he is solely re- 
sponsible. 
The names of the exhibitors of the wire- 
hair to-day in most parts of the world are 
legion. The excellent terriers to be seen 
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are numerous. It would be quite impossible 
in this chapter to give anything like an 
exhaustive list of either. 
Among the later devotees of the variety 
we find the names of several ladies, prominent 
among them being the Duchess of Newcastle 
and Miss Hatfeild, who each have owned, for 
some years now, excellent kennels. The 
former’s Ch. Cackler of Notts, Commodore 
of that ilk, and Raby Coastguard (bought 
for a big price by Mr. Raper when first 
brought out by the Duchess, his breeder, 
at the Fox-terrier Club show, and sold again 
for a big price to America), were perhaps her 
most famous terriers, while Miss Hatfeild 
has been very successful with her Champions 
Dusky Siren, Morden Bullseye, and many 
others. Among men we have the names 
of Messrs. Houlker, Hill, Holgate, Enfeild, 
Forrest, Gratrix, Greenhough, Mason, 
McNeill, Pitt-Pitts, Purdy, Redmond, Thur- 
nall, Scott, Swingler, Warburton and many 
others, all of them owners, and some of 
them breeders of famous terriers. 
America, Canada, Australia, India, and 
Africa, as well as all the Continental nations, 
have numerous exhibitors and owners of 
the variety. They have bought, of course; 
originally, entirely from Great Britain, they 
have paid fair prices, and they have from 
time to time secured some of our best 
specimens. 
Our country is, however, still full of 
excellent terriers of the variety, and there 
can be no doubt that properly looked after, 
in every sense of the expression, there is a 
great future for the wire-hair. 
In the writer’s opinion the one thing of all 
others that is required is that the judg- 
ing shall be as much as possible in capable 
hands. It would be well for those gentle- 
men who receive invitations to judge wire- 
hairs at different shows, if they would, 
before accepting the appointment, ask 
themselves the questions: Do I know 
a sound wire-hair? Do I know a sound- 
coated one from a bad-coated one? If the 
answers can be honestly and confidently 
given in the affirmative, then judge by all 
means. If the feeling is that the replies 
can only be in the negative, do not accept. 
