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by were a couple of gipsies' vans, from one of which 

 stepped out a comely " Romanic." The weather 

 was cold even for the end of April. " Eh ! young 

 man," said she to me, " be careful wi' those hounds ; 

 both my father and grandfather became crippled wi' 

 rheumatiz before they were forty-five years old 

 through wading in the water when otter hunting." 

 I can see the young woman now as I saw her that 

 day, when, leaning on my pole, I watched old Rally 

 (young Rally then) trying every little stone by the 

 beck to find the missing scent, and I often wondered 

 why she so addressed me. Happily, wading in the 

 water, after either hounds or fish, has not yet 

 " crippled me wi' rheumatiz," although I heeded not 

 the gipsy's warning. 



Perhaps 591116 of our terriers were descended 

 from " Piper Allan's," who was immortalised in Dr. 

 Brown's " Horae Subsecivae " (1858), where he said 

 of one of his dogs that it was " of the pure Piper 

 Allan breed." Piper Allan (Thomson Gray says, in 

 "Dogs of Scotland," 1891) was the son of William 

 Allan of Bellingham, Northumberland, who was born 

 in 1704. This William "had much shrewdness, wit, 

 and independence of mind, and in early life he 

 became a good player on the bagpipes. For a 

 livelihood he travelled about the country mending 

 pots and pans, making spoons, baskets, and brooms, 



