but a brief period, these seven decades have been sufficiently long 

 to obliterate the evidences as to the dogs used by the gallant 

 Captain for his hybridising purposes. The inference is, from 

 the shape and the occasional silkiness of the hair on the top of 

 the head, that the Dandie Dinmont played a leading part ; from the 

 pluck and colour, as well as the stamp of the terriers of thirty 

 years ago, that Bull Terrier blood is also prevalent. Authorities, 

 however, are by no means agreed as to the Dandie Dinmont, 

 Mr. Fred W. Lewis, for instance, writing : " This is all a matter of 

 speculation, and I am disposed to think that the Welsh cur or 

 cattle dog — a very sturdily built, short, crooked legged dog, used 

 by cattle drovers — was the means adopted to shorten the legs of 

 the Sealyham terriers. The cur in most cases possessed plenty 

 of pluck, and an inherent taste for hunting. That the majority of 

 Sealyham terriers were very crooked in front is a well known fact, 

 which can be verified by those of us who are old enough to 

 remember Captain Edwardes and his dogs." 



In his pursuit of gameness Captain Edwardes had inevitably 

 to meet with disappointments here and there, not all the puppies 

 he bred conforming to the exacting standard which he had set up 

 in his own mind. Like the sensible man he was he decided that 

 if his object were to be achieved, no pusillanimous dog must be 

 allowed to live and aid in perpetuating the race. So it came about 

 that a certain number had to be put under from time to time, with 



