278 Modem Dogs. 



But I have already wandered too much in 

 Borderland and enjoyed myself in the realm of 

 supposititious history, and must advance into the 

 region of fact ; this I will commence with a 

 summary of an interesting letter from Mr. James 

 Scott, of Newstead, writing to the Field in 1869, 

 under the nom de plume of u A Border Sportsman. " 

 This letter was brought about by others that had 

 previously appeared in the same journal, just at 

 that period when the Dandie Dinmont terrier was 

 becoming popularised. 



In 1800 James Davidson (he died in 1820) was 

 presented by Dr. Brown, Bridgeward, with a bitch 

 called Tar and a dog named Pepper, both very small 

 and very short in the leg, with long bodies, large 

 and long heads, ears large and pendant, like a 

 hound's or beagle's, but a little more pointed in the 

 lower end. About this time Mr. Davidson took 

 the Hyndlee farm, and shortly afterwards Mr. 

 Stephenson, the tenant in Plinderleigh, procured 

 for him another of those small terriers. It was no 

 relation to those he already had, being from Roth- 

 bury, where that peculiar small breed was to be 

 found in the greatest perfection, and bred by the 

 Aliens, Andersons, and Anguses. This Rothbury 

 specimen was very dark in colour and rough in coat. 

 The descendants of these three form the first of the 



