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popular clamour had its way years ago, 
goodness only knows what monstrosities 
would now be being bred. 
In the early days, two dogs named General 
Contour and Ch. Mawddy Nonsuch did a 
lot of winning. They were both English 
dogs, quite devoid of Welsh Terrier type, 
and even as terriers possessed of serious 
faults. The former a truly awful 
looking specimen, probably the product of 
a Manchester, Yorkshire, Fox-terrier cross ; 
he had a fairly long head, and was a showy 
sort, and was therefore nearly always put 
above the bond fide article with his short 
wedgy head. He apparently, however, did 
not deceive breeders, for one hardly ever, if 
at all, sees his name in any pedigree. Almost 
the same remarks apply to Mawddy Non- 
such, reported to have been bought for 
£200 by Mr. Edmund Buckley from Mr. 
A. Maxwell. This dog was not a_bad- 
looking terrier, but he was what is called 
a “flatcatcher’’?; he was blue in colour, 
having the inevitable accompaniment of 
a soft silky coat, and he was short of sub- 
stance throughout. Fortunately his name 
only appears in about one place in the 
pedigrees of the present day. These two 
terriers used to be shown a great deal in 
Wales, especially when Englishmen were 
judging. The danger of their being used 
much at stud must have been serious ; 
it is, indeed, a great mercy that they were 
either not used, or that, if they were, re- 
sults were so appalling that no one but 
owners and their immediate friends ever 
had an opportunity of inspecting them. 
Undoubtedly the best terrier shown at 
first was Mr. Dew’s Champion Topsy ; 
she was a sound-coated, well-made animal ; 
her colour was very good, and for a pure 
breed she had quite a long, good quality 
head. Her name is to be seen constantly 
in the pedigrees of our best terriers of to-day, 
and there is no doubt she did the breed an 
immensity of good. Another beautiful little 
terrier living in those days was Ch. Bob 
Bethesda ; he again was possessed of per- 
fect colour, and his body, legs and feet, 
coat, and general make and shape, could 
not be improved upon. His head, however, 
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was very short, in consequence of which 
Mawddy Nonsuch was, as a rule, placed 
over him, though it is almost certain Bob 
was the better terrier of the two in every 
other point. Bob Bethesda belonged to 
Mr. Edmund Buckley, master of the Buckley 
Otterhounds, with which pack he was 
regularly worked until the day of his 
death, he being unfortunately pulled to 
pieces by them. 
The colour of the Welsh Terrier is, of 
course, against him for working with a 
pack of hounds, especially in water. Deaths 
in this way are of somewhat frequent 
occurrence; they are in many cases un- 
avoidable, though may be in otter-hunting 
terriers, ever anxious to show that the work 
of a hound comes just as easy to them as 
that of their own particular vocation, are 
allowed at times too much license. It is 
only fair, however, to the breed to say that, 
barring this colour drawback, there is no 
better terrier to hounds living. They are 
not quarrelsome, show very little jealousy 
one of another in working, can therefore 
easily be used, exercised, and kennelled to- 
gether, being much better in this respect 
than any of the other breeds of terriers. 
They also, as a general rule, are dead game ; 
they want a bit of rousing, and are not so 
flashily, showily game as, say, the Fox- 
terrier ; but, just as with humans, when it 
comes to veal business, when the talking 
game is played out and there is nothing 
left but the doing part of the business, then 
one’s experience invariably is that the quiet 
man, the quiet terrier, is the animal wanted. 
The man who justly may be named the 
father of the Welsh Terrier in its present 
generation is Cledwyn Owen, of Pwllheli. 
Mr. Owen, unfortunately, does not now 
judge the breed often, but there is in all 
probability no better judge, and the good 
he did in connection with the breed when 
it first came into prominence as a show 
terrier is well known to all those who re- 
member the time referred to. Mr. Owen 
judged the breed at the 1887 Jubilee show 
at Barn Elms, and in upsetting all previous 
awards on the merits of the two terriers 
Bob Bethesda and Mawddy Nonsuch by 
