The Dandle Dinmont Terrier. 279 



pepper and mustard, or Dandle Dinmont, race of 

 terrier. 



The true breed, proceeds Mr. Scott, was quickly 

 spread amongst Mr. Davidson's friends ; but next to 

 Davidson himself for keeping up and distributing the 

 pure race at the early period of its history were the 

 Rev. H. G. Baillie, of Mellerstans, and Mr. Home, 

 of Carrolside. I think from this we get as much 

 about the early history of the breed as is possible, 

 and it certainly is strong proof that it existed in the 

 last century, had certain otter hound-like charac- 

 teristics, and that there were, at any rate, some of 

 the strain considerably larger in size than others. 



A rather noteworthy letter appeared much later in 

 the Field, viz., in 1878, as to the origin of Mr. James 

 Davidson's Dandie Dinmonts. This was written by 

 Mr. J. Davison, then residing at Andover, Hamp- 

 shire, who proceeds to say : " I, as rather more than 

 a sexagenarian, and a Border man, and one who in 

 almost his childhood took up with dandies, can, I 

 think, throw some light on the origin of those pos- 

 sessed by Mr. Davidson. The Border ' muggers ' 

 were great breeders of terriers the Andersons on 

 the English side, the Faas and Camells on the 

 Scotch side. In their perambulations they generally 

 met once or twice a year at Longhorsley, 

 Rochester (the ancient Bremenium of the Romans), 



