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largest the Tivy ever produced. So much for the 

 terriers that Captain Medwyn saw when he was in 

 Wales. 



One of the most useful strains of terrier which 

 still survives, and has done so without the bolstering 

 up of any specialist clubs or dog shows, but lives 

 and excels on its own merits alone, is a rough and 

 ready sort of dog kept in Northumberland and on 

 the Borders. This dog is neither a Dandie Dinmont 

 nor a Bedlington terrier, and I am inclined to agree 

 with what those who keep it say, that it is an older 

 breed than either. Mr. Jacob Robson, of Byrness, 

 near Otterburn, forwarded me a photograph of a 

 team of these terriers, and Mr. Wardle has success- 

 fully copied the group, so those who are interested 

 in the matter will be well able to see what these 

 terriers are like. Lately the name " Border Terrier" 

 has been given to them, an apt enough nomenclature, 

 but whether they require any particular designation 

 now after doing their work so well for a hundred 

 years, and perhaps more, is an open question. 



These terriers are exact counterparts of such as 

 we had in Westmoreland twenty, thirty, and more 

 years ago ; they are like such as the Cockertons had, 

 and similar to those the gunpowder makers owned 

 at Elterwater. The yellow dogs are of the same 

 stamp as the little bitch Worry, already alluded to, 



