Useful Compafiions of Alan. 73 



from 10 lbs. to 18 lbs., the bitches bemg nearly as heavy 

 as the dogs — perliaps about 2 lbs. less. 



The colours most fancied are steel with black tips, 

 fawn with dark brown tips to the ears and tail, dark slaty 

 blue (slightly grizzled, but without any absolute admix- 

 ture of white), black, and pure fawn — the order we have 

 named being in accordance with the value of each. The 

 hair should be long, straight, and shining like that of the 

 tail of the horse, any appearance of silkiness, woolliness, 

 or curl being to be avoided, excepting on the top of the 

 head, where it may have a slight tendency to the first- 

 named condition. 



ThQ points ^XQ : Coat, 25; colour, 20; head, 10; ears, 

 10; length of body, 10; carriage of tail, 10; symmetry, 15. 



The Dandle Dinmont resembles the Skye terrier in 

 general appearance, but there are several points of great 

 importance by which the two may be distinguished. As 

 stated in the Field, and not contradicted, Sir Walter Scott 

 was the first to draw attention to this breed in the second 

 of the Waverley series of novels, in which Dandie Din- 

 mont, of Charlieshope, is introduced as the owner of 

 '•' auld Pepper and auld Mustard, and young Pepper and 

 young Mustard, and little Pepper and little Mustard," 

 which he had "a' regularly entered, first wi' rottens, then 

 \vi' stots or weazels, and then wi* the tods and brocks, 

 and now," as he said, " they fear naething that ever cam' 

 wi' a hairy skin on't." According to this high authority 

 in matters canine, therefore, the dog of his day was a good 

 vermin-killer, and so he remains to this day. The original 

 of this strongly-marked character was a Mr. James David- 

 son of Hindlee, holding from Lord Douglas a wild farm 

 on the edge of the Teviotdale mountains, bordering closely 

 on Liddesdale. He was an ardent fox-hunter, according 

 to the fashion of the district, which is detailed at lengtli 

 in the twenty-fifth chapter of ''Guy Mannering," and 

 which, as Sir Walter remarks, was conducted in a manner 

 to " shock a member of the Pytchley Hunt " — the fox 

 (tod) being coursed by an indefinite number of " large 

 and fierce greyhounds," when driven from his earth by 

 the '^ terriers, including the whole generation of Peppei 



