The personality of the subject of my sketch, the Hon. Secretary of the English Branch of the Irish Terrier Club, will be familiar to many of my readers, although he is not seen at so many shows nowadays as his friends would wish. By his own account of himself, he has "been a fancier all his life," commencing, even before he left school, with a Fox-terrier, and then, in 1881, took to Irish Terriers, to which he has stuck ever since, his first coming from Dr. Carey, the respected Hon. Secretary of the Irish Terrier Club (Irish Branch), and his next he bought from Mr. G. R. Krehl, a puppy by Play Boy ex Fury, which, owing to some chaff from a neighbour, he named Bogie Rattler, whose blood is in most Irish Terrier pedigrees to-day. Mated to a bitch bred by Mr. W. Deacon, by Gripper ex Cora, the afterwards well-known Bachelor and Benedict resulted, the latter doing good service in the kennels of the popular "Irish Ambassador," and probably proving one of the most successful stud dogs of the breed known. Bachelor was an incomparable "pal" of his owner, and a dog I always much admired - rather small, with a good head and ears, very muscular, plenty of bone, "game as a pebble," very fast, highly intelligent, understanding everything said to him, and pages might be written of his cleverness in many ways. His daughter Breda Iris, mated to Breda Mixer (a dog with three crosses of Benedict) bred many of Mr. Mayall's winners and Champion Breda Muddler, a very successful sire; so that from Bogie Rattler and Biddy III. very many of the best of the breed have resulted.

MR. C. J. BARNETT.

MR. C. J. BARNETT'S IRISH TERRIERS BOGIE RATTLER BIDDY III. BENEDICT CHAMPION BRONZE BACHELOR.

From photo by Marsh Bros., Henley-on-Thames.

Mr. Barnett, without showing at many shows a year, has taken about 250 prizes with Irish Terriers alone, some of his strain being Boundary, Birthright, Beauly, Black Sheep, Baal, Bouquet, Beautiful Star, Mile End Muddler, and Beautiful Jim. Although he now seldom shows, he still breeds about twenty a year, and is a popular judge of the variety, and being a general favourite amongst those having these pleasure of his acquaintance, I am sure even this slight sketch of him will be welcome to many of his numerous friends amongst Doggy People. I find Mr. C. J. Barnett is of much the same opinion as the writer has expressed in another part of this book, that Dog Showing has become a "money-making business," and not so much a gathering of genuine fanciers to compare notes of the improvements, or otherwise, in the stock being brought out, as was formerly the case.

An interesting group of Mr. Barnett's celebrated Irishmen is given herewith, never before published, also an excellent portrait of Mr. Barnett.