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head. The claws are dark, as in other colours. [Nearly all Dandle Dinmont 

 terriers have some white on the chest, and some have also white claws] . 



10. Size and Weight (value 10). The height should_be from Sin. to llm. at the 

 top of shoulder. Length from top of shoulder to root of tail should not be more 

 than twice the dog's height, but, preferably, one or two inches less. Weight from 

 141b. to 241b. ; the best weight as near 181b. as possible. These weights are for dogs 

 in good working order. 



Doctor and Tib Mumps, the originals of the accompanying excellent portraits, 

 are the property of that well-known judge of the breed, Mr. Jas. Locke, of Selkirk. 

 Doctor, who has won ten first prizes besides sundry seconds and h.c.'s., is certainly 

 the most perfect Dandie I have ever seen, and richly deserves the high position he 

 has obtained. Fully equal to Mr. Mosse's Shamrock in body and legs, he beats him 

 completely in head and jaw ; being, in my opinion, absolutely perfect according to 

 the above standard of points wherein the full- sized ear, to which I have alluded 

 in them, is recognised as correct. He is by Mr. Locke's Sporran (son of Mr. Nicol 

 Milne's Tug), out of Ailie by Shamrock. 



Tib Mumps is almost equally neat with Doctor, and exactly like him in colour 

 and appearance. She took the first prize at the Crystal Palace in 1876, Nell 

 Gwynne being second ; but at the following show at Birmingham their positions 

 were reversed. She is by Mr. Jas. Locke's Dandie III. out of Mr. Patterson's Old 

 Miss. 



In corroboration of "my opinions as to the change of shape in the Dandie 

 Dinmont, I insert, with the writer's kind permission, the following letter, published 

 in The Field subsequently to the appearance of the article as reproduced above : 



" To the Editor of The Field." 



" SIB, I have read with pleasure the notices of late in your paper about Dandie 

 Dinmont terriers. The description by ' Stonehenge ' of the original dogs agrees 

 with what I recollect of them more than fifty years ago, and I have kept them ever 

 since. 



" My school vacations were spent at the house of a friend near Kelso, and there 

 I made my first acquaintance with a Dandie, Matcham by name. He belonged to 

 Lady Diana Scott, Eosebank, Kelso, and to the best of my recollection, in all 

 respects resembled ' Stonehenge' s description of the old kind ; an active, well- 

 proportioned dog, with small thin ears close to his cheeks, straight legs and good 

 feet, well suited for a long day's work. Matcham was fond of fun. The first shot we 

 fired at rabbits brought him up to us, and he rarely left the door until we returned 



to Edinburgh. ' Lady D 's ' coachman was very wrathful at the absence of the 



dog ; but the sport he got with the lads was so much more to Matcham's taste than 

 following the carriage, that he was little at Eosemount, and enjoyed the rabbit 

 shooting as long as he could, returning home, where he lived a quiet and respectable 

 life till the next year's holidays brought back his friends. Afterwards I had several 

 of Mr. Davidson's breed given me by my friend ; they were all much alike in shape, 

 and very unlike the prize dog of the present day. I was able to keep the old type, 



