11C LETTERS TO THE AUTHOR. 



It appears that iny heart disease had been gaining 

 ground, and my health falling off from it, as far back 

 as 1863, so it is no wonder I am now so completely 

 winged. Ever yours truly, 



JOHN GRANT. 



THE DAXDIE DIXMOXTS. 



Copy of Letter from Lieut. Colonel Cust to the Author, 



Jan. 31, 1879. 



Harewood Bridge, Harewood, Leeds, 

 MB. ARMSTRONG, I have been a long time returning 

 you all the letters and papers you sent me about the 

 t( Dandie Dinmont Terriers," but I assure you I have 

 read them with the greatest interest. I have taken the 

 liberty of copying out your points of a Dandie. I hope 

 you will not object my having done so, but if you do I 

 will destroy it. I think you should send to "The 

 Field" the points of the Dandie Terrier, for really the 

 nonsense that has been written about them is past 

 everything. I recollect some years ago, Mr Nicholl 

 Milne, of Faldonside, having what he called pure 

 Dandies, and Mr James Kerss, gamekeeper, of Bowhill, 

 also, but they were not the least like your puppy, or 

 like one another. Your puppy (or rather my puppy 

 now), has a good blue-grey coat, black claws, good 

 dark hazel coloured eyes as bright as diamonds, with 

 good strong legs, and a long, low, strong body ; he is 

 growing as level as possible, and is a famous little 

 fellow. Mr Milne's dogs were more fawn than mustard, 

 en a longer leg, with a shorter back than your breed, 



