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to do with Airedales join at once, but very 
shortly a host of new fanciers was enrolled, 
and crowds of people began to take the 
breed up who had had nothing to do with 
it, or, indeed, anyother sort of dog previously. 
An excellent idea in connection with the 
new club was the holding of novice shows 
and what are called evening matches. These 
latter proved an especial attraction. The 
members of the club meet together at them, 
and matches are decided between their 
dogs, some being the outcome of challenges 
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made and accepted before the meeting, but 
many being got up on the spur of the moment 
at the meeting itself, members taking dogs” 
there on the chance of finding a willing 
opponent. A truly sporting spirit was thus 
engendered by the new club, it being quite 
a treat to attend any of its functions. No 
one seems to mind whether he wins or not, 
the merits of the opponent’s dog being fully 
acknowledged just as the faults in the 
member’s own dog are freely admitted. An 
excellent nursery this, not only for the 
production of the true fancier who takes 
his licking like a man, but also for the making 
of really competent judges, who, frequently 
seeing dogs pitted against each other and 
capably judged, get in the way of properly 
weighing up the points of a terrier, judging 
in a correct method, and thus eventually 
themselves fittingly occupying the judicial 
chair. 
Some few years after the foundation of 
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this club, a junior branch of it was started, 
and this, ably looked after by Mr. R. Lauder 
McLaren, is almost as big a success in its 
way as is the parent institution. Other 
clubs have been started in the north and 
elsewhere, and altogether the Airedale is 
very well catered for in this respect, and, 
if things go on as they are now going, is 
bound to prosper and become even more 
extensively owned than he is at present. To 
Mr. Holland Buckley, Mr. G. H. Elder, 
Mr. Royston Mills, and Mr. Marshall Lee, 
the Airedale of the present day owes much. 
These gentlemen, it is true, are all south 
countrymen, and it is perhaps odd that the 
Airedale, being a north-country dog, 
should receive its great impetus from 
the south. 
In the north the Airedale breeders 
have been plodding steadily on, and 
have not been idle by any means; 
they continue to produce a beautiful 
class of terrier which can always hold 
its own with anything produced else- 
where; but in the very nature of things 
the breeders and owners being much more 
spread about than is the case with their 
southern confréerves they probably have not 
the facilities for frequent meetings. It is 
in no sense derogatory to them to say that 
the Airedale owes a great deal in recent 
years to the southerner ; it is, in fact, just 
the opposite, and does them infinite credit. 
They are in reality the fathers of the breed, 
and it is solely owing to the quality of their 
productions that the gentlemen from the 
south have in such large numbers taken up 
their breed—a fact which one may be sure 
is not objected to in the slightest by the 
gentlemen of the north. 
The Airedales that have struck the writer 
as the best he has come across, besides those 
already mentioned, are Master Briar, Clonmel 
Monarch, Clonmel Marvel, Dumbarton Lass, 
Tone Masterpiece, Mistress Royal, Master 
Royal, Tone Chief, Huckleberry Lass, and 
Fielden Fashion. Two other champions in 
York Sceptre and Clonmel Floriform were, as 
far as he can remember, unseen by the writer. 
Nearly every one of these is now, either in the 
flesh or spirit, in the United States or Canada. 
