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any bearing upon the subject and basing one's opinion upon the facts 

 adduced. We have already completed more than half of the present book 

 and will frankly acknowledge that we have had to change our ideas upon 

 something like half the breeds treated upon, for the reason that in quite 

 unexpected quarters some reliable facts has cropped out when reading 

 up an entirely different subject, and these would not have been found if the 

 investigation had. been confined to a few breeds. 



When the wire-haired terrier was first provided with classes he was not 

 recognised as a fox terrier. We have an old Birmingham catalogue of 1879 

 before us, and find that fox terriers followed hounds and preceded setters 

 in the sporting dogs' division; and away back in the catalogue, just preceding 

 Yorkshires, there are two classes for wire-haired terriers. At small shows 

 they were permitted to be entered in the classes then in vogue for broken- 

 haired terriers, which by some peculiar stretch of the imagination included 

 Yorkshire terriers. By this name of wire-haired terriers they were regis- 

 tered until 1882, when the English Kennel Club stud book for that year 

 changed the classification title to "Wire-Haired Fox Terriers." So that 

 as a matter of fact fox terrier up to. that time was a name applicable only 

 to the smooth dog, the wire-haired dog still retaining its old title of terrier, 

 with the division title specifying coat. 



In America the wire-haired dog was first recognised at the New York 

 show of 1883, when three were shown in the one class for dogs and bitches. 

 Mr. Jack Grainger's Tyke, from the Carrick Kennels, was the winner, and 

 was first in this class for four years. Two years later the breed was given 

 one champion class and a dog and a bitch class, the first and last being 

 added classes, the original schedule providing but one class for the breed. 

 This was again changed the following year and only the dog and bitch classes 

 were provided, all novices being entered in the same classes as the smooths. 

 At this time Mr. Mortimer was the principal exhibitor, and, as he was also 

 the superintendent, the absence of any champion class may be attributed 

 to his not desiring to be seemingly pushing the breed for his own advantage. 

 Certainly the entries by this time fully warranted enlargement, there being 

 ten dogs and five bitches entered in the two open classes at the New York 

 show of 1892. Finally, in 1894, the breed was promoted to a first-class 

 classification of challenge, open and novice for each sex, and a puppy class. 

 This was none too much, for Messrs. H. H. Hunnewell, G. W. Ritchie, 

 R. H. Mayhew, the Hempstead Farm and H. W. Smith were now in the 



