254 DOGS AND ALL ABOUT THEM 



two animals from the same litter, and with the one obtained a 

 prize or honourable mention in the Dandie classes, and with 

 the other a like distinction in the Bedlington classes. 



It may be interesting to give a few particulars concerning the 

 traceable ancestors of the modern Dandie. In Mr. Charles 

 Cook's book on this breed, we are given particulars of one 

 William Allan, of Holystone, born in 1704, and known as 

 Piper Allan, and celebrated as a hunter of otters and foxes, 

 and for his strain of rough-haired terriers who so ably assisted 

 him in the chase. William Allan's terriers descended to his 

 son James, also known as the " Piper," and born in the year 

 1734. James Allan died in 1810, and was survived by a 

 son who sold to Mr. Francis Somner at Yetholm a terrier dog 

 named Old Pepper, descended from his grandfather's famous 

 dog Hitchem. Old Pepper was the great-grandsire of Mr. 

 Somner's well-known dog Shem. These terriers belonging to 

 the Allans and others in the district are considered by Mr. 

 Cook to be the earliest known ancestors of the modern Dandie 

 Dinmont. 



Sir Walter Scott himself informs us that he did not draw the 

 character of Dandie Dinmont from any one individual in 

 particular, but that the character would well fit a dozen or 

 more of the Lidderdale yeomen of his acquaintance. How- 

 ever, owing to the circumstance of his calling all his terriers 

 Mustard and Pepper, without any other distinction except 

 " auld " and " young " and " little," the name came to be 

 fixed by his associates upon one James Davidson, of Hindlee, 

 a wild farm in the Teviotdale mountains. 



James Davidson died in the year 1820, by which time the 

 Dandie Dinmont Terrier was being bred in considerable num- 

 bers by the Border farmers and others to meet the demand 

 for it which had sprung up since the appearance of Guy 

 Mannering. 



As a result of the controversies that were continually re- 

 curring with regard to the points of a typical Dandie Dinmont 

 there was formed in the year 1876 the Dandie Dinmont Terrier 



