hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five 

 grews, and a wheen other dogs. There's auld 

 Pepper and auld Mustard, and young Pepper and 

 young Mustard, and little Pepper and little 

 Mustard. I had them a' regularly entered, 

 first wi' rottens — then \vi' stoats or weasels — and 

 then wi' the tods and brocks — and now they fear 

 naething that ever cam wi' a hairy skin on't." 



" I have no doubt, sir, they are thorough-bred — 

 but, to have so many dogs, you seem to have a 

 very limited variety of names for them ?" 



" O, that's a fancy of my ain to mark the 

 breed, sir. — The Deuke himsel' has sent as far as 

 Charlies-hope to get ane o' Dandy Dinmont's Pepper 

 and Mustard terriers — Lord, man, he sent Tarn 

 Hudson the keeper, and siccan a day as we had 

 wi' the foumarts and the tods, and siccan a 

 blithe gaedown as we had again e'en ! Faith, that 

 was a night ! " 



. . . All the dogs were kicked out, excepting 

 the venerable patriarchs, old Pepper and Mustard, 

 whom frequent castigation and the advance of 

 -, had inspired with such a share of passive 

 hospitality, that, after mutual explanation and 

 remonstrance in the shape of some growling, they 

 admitted Wasp, who had hitherto judged it safe 



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