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The Airedale and the Fox-terrier had most 
to do with his production, but several 
other breeds and varieties added their 
quota as his progenitors. Classes were 
given for him at all the principal shows. 
Wherever there was a Welsh Terrier class, so 
there would be one for Old English Terriers, 
and some shows gave classes for Welsh or 
Old English Terriers, which, inasmuch as 
has been said the latter were the more 
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CH. LONGMYND ENCHANTRESS 
BY MR. HOUDINI——BRYNHIR BRIDE. 
Photograph by T. Fall, 
showy, was felt by the supporters of the 
former to be very objectionable and most 
damaging to the interests of their breed, 
then in the initial stage of its transformation 
into the show dog. 
The Welsh Terrier Club, ably managed 
as it was by its first secretary, Mr. W. 
Wheldon Williams, worked hard, however, 
to set matters straight, and, from the first, 
met with a certain amount of success. 
Formed in the year 1885, it numbered 
among its members several well-known 
men in the dog world who did all they 
could to assist a deserving cause. The 
classes that were given at the very earliest 
shows, such as Carnarvon, Pwllheli, and 
others, were given for ‘‘ Welsh or Black-and- 
tan Wire-haired Terriers,” and it was quite 
marvellous the support they received and 
the success attending them. One knows 
that nowadays classes given for brand-new 
breeds obtain at first but poor entries, are 
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usually included in a schedule as a conse- 
quence of the liberality of some individual, 
and that a breed generally takes some years 
to work up, so that a respectable entry is 
obtained. Here, however, from the very 
first, as soon as classes were provided for 
the “Welsh or Black-and-tan Wire-haired 
Terrier,” a large entry was obtained in 
every such class, and people flocked to 
the shows in Wales to see them. The 
writer himself was present at the first 
shows that catered for the breed. One 
such—Pwllheli, in 1885—had three classes, 
each with an entry of over thirty per class, 
and was a notable example—notable not 
only on this account, but also from the 
fact that the whole show was judged by 
two old Welsh squires, splendid old gentle- 
men of the sporting type, both of them 
Masters of Hounds at one time or other, 
who had kept Welsh Terriers all their lives 
and knew very well what was required in 
hunter, hound, or terrier. Both have been 
dead now some years, but their memory 
remains. The method of their judging, 
though somewhat peculiar, seemed to give 
satisfaction, and there is a probability that 
the best dogs were properly recognised. Two 
old black oak armchairs were procured from 
a neighbouring cottage, and, seated in these, 
our judges caused each dog to be separately 
brought before them. Their good and bad 
points were carefully noted down, and 
the awards were ultimately given out with- 
out further comparison being made. It 
was a lengthy business, and, perhaps, rather 
hard lines on those whose terriers wanted 
something in the way of dog-flesh to show 
at. But there was little if any grumbling 
at the results; the judges were so cheery, 
and all was so pleasant and nice. 
It was, of course, inevitable, in the cir- 
cumstances, that at first animals which 
were not pure-bred Welsh Terriers should 
be found competing in the classes given at 
some of the English shows. There was not 
then any rule of the Kennel Club, as there 
is now, to prevent any mongrel being shown 
in any class. Some of them, too, were 
awful freaks; but as again several of the 
judges appointed were quite ignorant of 
