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money could not induce him to part with the dog we would have made every 

 effort to buy him. He was thoroughly Irish in type, well-built and eminently 

 sound in coat. His line is as much of an outcross as one can get from 

 Bokon Woods Mixer and Breda Muddler at the present time and get a 

 winning strain, for he is three removes from Muddler, reaching him through 

 his sirens dam, that excellent bitch, Champion Blue Nettle- Colin's dam 

 is a daughter of Bolton Woods Mixer, but her dam and also the line of 

 Colin's grandsire are outcrosses. Mile End Muddler is another good dog 

 of the Breda Muddler line, but he does not seem to have been at all phenom- 

 enally successful as a sire, in fact there has not been a dog in England since 

 Bolton Woods Mixer's day that has filled his place. We note, however, 

 that Mr. Jowett'sCrow Gill Mike seems to be making himself conspicuous. 



It is now time to turn attention to the Irish terrier in America, the 

 history beginning with the advent of Kathleen, the bitch we brought over 

 in 1S80 and showed in the miscellaneous class at New York that year. 

 Kathleen came from the middle counties of Ireland, and her pedigree did not 

 extend beyond her sire and dam. She had won a third at Dublin before we 

 bought her from Mr. Graham, and for us she won two firsts and a second- 

 She was bred to Mr. Krehl's Sporter, and when lying off Staten I^and she 

 gave birth to the first Irish terrier puppies born in this country, one of which 

 worn a second at New York in i!88i and when sent to England with his dam 

 a few months later had his name changed and won a prize or two there. 

 Dr. J. S. Niven, of London, Ont., was the next to import a few of the 

 breed, and his Norah and Aileen were winners in their day. Mr.. Lawrence 

 Timpson had one or two durir^ the eighties, including the dog Garryowen, 

 by Paddy II. out of Erin, but there was nothing heue <o£ any account to 

 produce good results from this d(^. Mr. J. Colemoan Drayton also imported 

 Spuds when she was eight years oM and showed her so £ait that she had not 

 the slightest resemblance to the flyer wie had seen five or six years before. 



Mr. Mitchell Harrison, who was king-pin among coHie vexhibitors, 

 bought, when in Ireland in 1887, a braoe of Mr. Graham's lenriers, a 

 fairly good ^log named Breda Jim, and a nice quality, rather small bitch 

 named Breda Tiney. Mr. Charles Thompson, also of Philadelphia, at the 

 same time got the bitch Geesela and had her bred to B^tedict before bringing 

 her home with ihim. From this line came the 'varioivis Gees^as that have 

 appeared M Philadelphia shows. Biieda Tiney wom at New York in 1888, 

 but Breda Jim was beaten by another Graham dog named Greymount, a 



