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were a noted strain in their day, and fetched from 

 one pound to twenty pounds apiece. They were 

 undoubtedly fox terriers. 



The Dandie Dinmont terrier does not appear to 

 have been noticed by our writers about this time, 

 but that it is one of the old varieties of terriers, 

 I believe, and, although it did not receive its dis- 

 tinctive name until about 1814, when Sir Walter 

 Scott published " Guy Mannering," similar dogs 

 were no doubt fairly numerous on the Border long 

 before that time. 



Between 1830 and 1840, writers tell us of the 

 Scotch terrier and the smooth - haired English 

 terrier, a contributor to the " Sportsman " (1833), 

 and Brown, in his " Field Book" (the same date), 

 giving the palm to the Scotch terrier as the finest 

 and oldest variety. In the first-named publication, 

 there is an engraving, said to be of a Scotch terrier, 

 which, so far as shape, style, and character are 

 concerned, would make a very good cropped Irish 

 terrier of the present day. However, about this 

 period and earlier, different localities were producing 

 different kinds of terriers, and we now hear for the 

 first time of one which answers the description of 

 the modern black and tan or Manchester terrier. 



The first writer to give any reliable particulars 

 as to many of the now increasing varieties of the 



