The Dandie Dinmont Terrier. 309 



Mustard terriers famous there was at once, we may fairly assume, a 

 pretty general desire to possess the breed, and it is hardly likely the demand 

 would or could be supplied from this single pair, and as Pepper and Tarr 

 must have had relations more or less close in consanguinity, these would 

 probably be used to swell the family circle of the Dandies, and in support 

 of the supposition that we have living specimens directly descended from 

 Pepper and Tarr without admixture of blood more or less foreign, even 

 if we could be quite sure Dandie Dinmont himself stuck rigidly to the 

 Pepper and Tarr blood (and after they became so public he would probably 

 do his best to breed to one standard or type) I know of the existence 

 of no proof that dogs distributed by him throughout the country were by 

 their several owners bred to others of the same blood. Is it not reason- 

 able to suppose that the produce of a terrier bitch of another strain 

 sent to a dog known to be from Hindlee would be called Dan die's or of 

 Dandie Dinmont' s strain, just as before the advent of dog shows and 

 the care which has of late years been bestowed on pedigrees, a sportsman 

 who had bred from a pointer dog of Earl Sefton' s would describe the 

 produce as of the Sefton strain ? 



I conceive much more has been done to secure to us the correct article 

 to-day by those breeders who, some of them having personal knowledge 

 of Davidson's own dogs, sticking as close as they could breed to the 

 type, and selecting on occasion, even without a knowledge of its pedigree, 

 a dog that bore the family character, than by others who lay too much stress 

 on pedigrees which cannot be proved with any degree of certainty. Take, 

 for instance, Shamrock, one of the subjects of our illustrations. His 

 pedigree in the Kennel Club Stud Book gives his dam as Vic, bred by 

 Mr. W. Johnstone, by a dog of good blood belonging to an officer at the 

 Purshill Barracks. Here we have in one of the best known and best 

 dogs of the day a break in the pedigree before we go back two genera- 

 tions. No doubt Mr. Johnstone felt satisfied he was using a dog of good 

 blood because he possessed the characteristics of a good Dandie, but 

 there is no proof that he was of pure breed, and so we find breaks in the 

 chain between every existing dog and those two given to Dandie Dinmont 

 by Dr. Brown, of Bonjedward. 



It would be needless to recapitulate the names of all of the earlier breeders 

 who followed the originator of this strain. James Scott, of Newstead, 

 Stoddart, of Selkirk, Douglass, of Cessford, Somner, of Kelso, with a 



