CHAPTER XII. 

 THE DANDIE DINMONT TERRIER. 



A COMMON belief prevails that Sir Walter Scott 

 invented the Dandie Dinmont terrier. Such was, 

 however, not the case, and long before 1814, when 

 " Guy Mannering " was written, and in which Scot- 

 land's greatest novelist and poet introduced the 

 character of Dandie Dinmont with his terriers Auld 

 Pepper and Auld Mustard, Young Pepper and 

 Young Mustard, and Little Pepper and Little 

 Mustard, similar dogs had been kept amongst the 

 sporting farmers, gipsies, tinkers, and potters who 

 resided about the Borders, or travelled there, 

 extending their peregrinations well into the south 

 of Scotland, and even to below Carlisle. 



Sir Walter was, however, responsible for the name 

 this quaint variety of terrier bears at the present time. 

 One of his characters in the story alluded to, is 

 " Dandie Dinmont," who, without being drawn from 

 any particular individual, was no doubt intended to 

 represent a type of farmer at that time common 



