76 DOMESTICATED HUNTING-DOGS. 



bit ; certainly it would be a hopeless task to prevent a Dandie Din- 

 mont from engaging with a fox were an opportunity to offer. I 

 consider the animal as naturally good-tempered, but when once 

 roused, he is ready to seize hold of anything within reach. When 

 I first kept these clogs, I was ignorant of their extremely excitable 

 nature, and had many killed from time to time in fights, either in 

 the kennels or at the entrance of rabbit holes; in short, when once 

 their blood is fairly up they become utterly unmanageable. On 

 this account, for years past (though I keep a number) I do not 

 allow more than one dog and one bitch in a kennel, but sometimes a 

 dog and two bitches if very harmonious. The first I had worried, 

 many years ago, was a beautiful little fellow 14 Ib. weight, bred 

 by Mr. Kerss (Bowhill), from a sister of Stoddart's old Dandie and 

 his own old Pepper. He was killed in the night time by another 

 of my dogs, to my great annoyance. When I mentioned the cir- 

 cumstance to Mr. Kerss, he informed me that during the time the 

 little animal belonged to him, he had worried some of his, amongst 

 the number a Newfoundland pup six months old. Yet it is by no 

 means always the most excitable and pugnacious animal that 

 stands the severe test, viz., to face alone two badgers at once, and 

 fasten upon one of them while the other in turn attacks him, as I 

 have known very many do. For my part, I prefer the dog who 

 encounters his antagonist coolly and without any fuss. 



"In conclusion, I annex a list of the kennels I purchased, viz., 

 that of Mr. Somner (including his crack dog Shem), those of 

 Messrs. Purves, Frain, M'Dougald (including his famous Old May- 

 day), J. Stoddart (who sold to me his celebrated Old Dandie), and 

 many other Dandies from Mr. Milne, of Faldonside, bred from his 

 famous OH Jenny, from Mr. Jas. Kerss (Bowhill), and likewise 

 from the Haining, near Selkirk. From these ancestors my dogs 

 are purely and lineally descended. 



" Apologizing for having occupied so much of your columns, 



" E. BRADSHAW SMITH. 



"Zurich, Switzerland." 



The illustration is a portrait of Mr. Locke's Doctor, which has 

 been established as one of the favorites of the various experts em 



