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as there is a belief that the red-nosed dogs are 

 keener scented than those with black noses. 



" Some of the best of the breed I have known 

 were Nailer and Tanner, belonging to the late Mr. 

 Dodd, of Catcleugh ; Flint, Bess, Rap, Dick, and 

 Pep of Byrness ; Rock, a son of Flint's, belonging 

 to Mr. Hedley, Burnfoot ; Tanner, Mr. R. Oliver's 

 Spithopehaugh ; Bob, Mr. Elliott's, of Hindhope ; 

 and Ben, belonging to Mr. Robson, of Newton. 

 As I have said, a number of grand terriers of the 

 strain have been bred by the Sistersons, of Yarrow 

 Moor in North Tyne, and in Lidderdale by the 

 Scotts, Ballantynes, and others. I have also been 

 told that the terriers owned by Ned Dunn, of 

 Whitelee, Reedwater, were more of the type of these 

 Border terriers than of the Dandie Dinmont, and I 

 rather think that the Dandies of fifty or more years 

 ago resembled the Border terrier in many respects, 

 more so, at any rate, than they do now." 



To further prove, if further proof were required, 

 that the Border terrier, although new in name, is 

 not a modern creation, it may be stated that there 

 is, in the Robson family, a picture of a once well- 

 known character in Tynedale, Yeddie Jackson, who 

 was known as the" hunter king " in North Tyne and 

 throughout Lidderdale and the adjoining country. 

 The painting, which was executed about 1820 or a 



