THE WELSH TERRIER. 
unhesitatingly putting them in the order 
named, there is no doubt that considerable 
good was done. A check was put on the 
further introduction of terriers of wrong 
type, and breeders saw which way to go. 
As Mr. Owen said, the one was a Welsh 
Terrier, the other was not; and, as he 
happened to be judging a class of the former 
kind, it was advisable to put up top a terrier 
of the sort catered for in the class. 
Following on Bob Bethesda (who un- 
fortunately was not a prolific stock getter) 
came Ch. Dim Saesonaeg, a terrier of beau- 
tiful colour and coat with the best of bodies. 
This dog was a great success at the stud, 
and he and the before-mentioned Topsy are 
undoubtedly responsible for much of the 
quality seen at the present day. His litter 
brother Badger was also a noted terrier, 
though he made no mark at stud. Then 
came Ch. Cymro Dewr II., another good 
sound terrier, who had a better head than 
any dog up to his time, though his eye was 
rather full. His name appears to his credit 
in some of the present-day pedigrees. After 
him came Ch. Cymry o’ Gymru, a son of 
Dim Saesonaeg, and in quality well up with 
his predecessors. The writer should have 
been the possessor of this dog at the age 
of two months at the modest price of twenty 
shillings, but missed him in an unfortunate 
way. Dim Saesonaeg’s services were given 
by the writer to a man named Mitchell, of 
Bangor, a keen fancier who was very popular 
in and about his district, for first pick of 
the litter at two months, and refusal of any 
of the others at £1. The bitch owned by 
Mitchell, by name Blinkbonny, was a 
valuable terrier, with, perhaps, the best coat 
ever seen; she in due time had a litter of 
five or six, which at the age of two months 
were inspected by a friend of the writer’s, 
a good judge, who picked a nice puppy on 
his behalf, and sent word that it was no use 
having any of the others, as they were all 
undershot, which was the fact. Ch. Cymry 
o’ Gymru happened, however, to be amongst 
the undershot ones, his mouth later on 
coming all right. 
It is necessary to bear this episode in 
mind when examining young Welsh Terriers. 
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In the writer’s experience, very many of 
them are apparently badly undershot in their 
jaws at two months, and even at an older 
age; but it is extraordinary how they come 
right, and much more of this sort of thing 
is to be seen in them than in any other kind 
of terrier. Another thing that it may be 
useful, in passing, to call attention to is 
that several puppies are born with black 
below the hock and on the toés, others with 
white toes, others (in certain strains) with 
no black anywhere—all tan all over. Now 
unless these blemishes disappear as the 
terriers grow, disqualification or severe 
handicap will be the fate of each. In nearly 
every instance—provided, of course, the 
puppy is pure bred—it will be found, how- 
ever, that the terrier will, as it grows, almost 
imperceptibly free itself from these imper- 
fections; the legs and toes will become 
all tan, and the black back will assuredly 
appear before the puppy has reached the 
adult stage. 
After Cymry o’ Gymru came Ch. Bryn- 
hir Burner and Ch. Brynhir Ballad, who 
bring us down to the present day, when 
we have several excellent terriers whose 
names are to be found in the different 
catalogues of the several shows held all 
over the country. There is no doubt that the 
breed is in excellent shape ; there are several 
keen fanciers espousing its cause, not only 
in this country, but in Canada, the United 
States, India, and South Africa. It has 
many advantages over other breeds, few 
drawbacks, and one may look forward with 
confidence to its regaining the position held 
by it centuries ago, and becoming once again 
the world’s chief terrier. 
Prominent amongst its supporters to-day 
are Mrs. Aylmer (a brace of whose excellent 
terriers will be found illustrated in colour in 
connection with this chapter), Mrs. H. D. 
Greene, Lord Mostyn (in whose family the 
breed has been fromalmost time immemorial), 
Colonel Savage, and Messrs. T. H. Harris, 
W. J. M. Herbert (the popular Hon. Secretary 
of the Welsh Terrier Club), H. D. Greene, 
G. R. Marriott, E. Powell, William Jones, 
M. Palmer, John Jones, John Williams, W. A. 
Dew (whose kennel some years back was 
