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enough on the Borders strong, burly agriculturists, 

 with a passion for sport of all kinds, and perhaps never 

 more pleasantly employed than, with the aid of their 

 terriers, digging out and killing some fox that had 

 been making reprisals on their flocks. Such men 

 were but a part of the times, and there was no need 

 to draw upon the imagination for so fine a character 

 as " Dandie Dinmont " of Charlieshope, with which 

 the variety of dog of which I write has become so 

 strongly identified. 



After the publication of " Guy Mannering " the 

 character of " Dandie Dinmont " was by common 

 consent applied to one James Davidson of Hyndlee, 

 of whom, however, Sir Walter Scott had never heard. 

 Still, the description appeared to fit him well, and 

 although he had never read the story himself, his 

 friends would, out of sheer fun, repeat passages to 

 him, over which it has been said Jamie was wont to 

 fall asleep. 



This Davidson occupied a farm on Lord Douglas's 

 estate at Hyndlee, Roxburghshire, bordering the 

 Teviots, and in addition to being a keen sportsman 

 bore a character for his rough " outspokenness" and 

 honesty, as well as being a strong, powerful man, 

 and quite as hard in constitution as men reared and 

 brought up as he had been usually are. He 

 possessed an extra good strain of terriers, and 



