282 Modern Dogs. 



he was benched during three or four subsequent 

 seasons. 



The Rev. Tenison Mosse was now on the scene 

 with his little dog Shamrock ; the newspaper corre- 

 spondence was having its weight, and the Dandie 

 Dinmont terrier was increasing in popularity. The 

 very heavy Sir Douglas came into the ring, much to 

 the chagrin of Scottish exhibitors, who said he was 

 too big, and that his sire Harry was a mongrel, 

 which he was not. Sir Douglas was a handsome, 

 sensible dog of my own ; he was too big, scaling 

 27lb., but he won a considerable number of prizes, 

 including first at the Border show, held at 

 Carlisle, in 1871, the Rev. J. C. Macdona and Mr. 

 S. Handley judging ; a dog called Punch, also by 

 Harry, and owned by Mr. Coulthard, being second. 

 The general public were satisfied with the awards, 

 but not so many of the Scottish fanciers, who were 

 terribly cut up at the defeat of their own cracks. 



At this show Mr. Bradshaw Smith, of Blackwood 

 House, Ecclefechan, had four dogs and bitches 

 entered ; for about thirty years he had paid consider- 

 able attention to the Dandie Dinmont terrier, usually 

 having a score or so of them in his kennels. Some 

 of these were very good ; his dog Dirk Hatterick, for 

 instance, who had been written of as the " incom- 

 parable Dirk." Shem was another good dog ; he 



