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later in the seventies, viz., in 1877, when it was 

 announced that the awards would be made by points, 

 the judges being Messrs. Pool and J. B. Richardson. 

 There was the largest entry which had hitherto been 

 brought together, eighty-five of the Dandie Dinmont 

 terriers competing. There was no particular 

 uniformity in the awards of prizes after all, and two 

 of the chief honours went to animals of quite distinct 

 type the one to Shamrock, already alluded to, who 

 then weighed 2olb. and was given seventy-eight points 

 out of the possible hundred ; the other to Mr. W. 

 Carrick's mustard dog Harry Bertram, who weighed 

 27-Jlb., and was given fifty-nine points out of the 

 possible hundred. This, I fancy, was the beginning 

 and ending of judging Dandie Dinmonts by points, 

 and there were some odd awards made by the 

 Scotsmen in those days, whatever they might say 

 about those made by English judges. One of the 

 latter had written that a Dandie Dinmont should 

 have erect ears ! 



The terrier of which I write was, at this period, in 

 the hey-day of his popularity. Leading exhibitors 

 and the chief shows were supporting him. The late 

 Mr. J. H. Murchison, the Rev. J. C, Macdona, Mr. 

 James Locke, Selkirk ; Mr. W. Carrick, Carlisle ; 

 Mr. James Cook, Edinburgh ; Mr. A. Irving and Mr. 

 Pool, Dumfries; Capt H. Ashton, Mr. A. H. T. 



