223 
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 Ib., 
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 
THE NEW BOOK 
HARRISON'S RANJITSINHulI. 
Photograph by Hignett and Son, Lostock, 
MR. R. 
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 
OF THE DOG. 
up in Manchester, and which showed in a 
marked manner a cross of the Snap-dog 
breed, and you remember all his strain 
MORNING STAR. 
MR. W. BALLANTYNE’'S CH. 
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 
