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good mustard dog, Ch. Cannie Lad. The 

 late Mr. Flinn of Portobello owned a good 

 mustard dog, called Marplot, and his 

 mustard dog Charlie II. appears in the 

 pedigrees of very many of the best strains of 

 Dandies. Mr. A. Weaver of Leominster 

 has owned and bred many good Dandies, 

 perhaps the best of them being Ainsty 

 Vesper, Cannie Lad, and Daisy Deans. 

 Mr. A. Steel of Kelso has bred and exhibited 

 many excellent specimens, two of his best 

 being the mustard dog Ch. Scotland's Prince, 

 and the pepper bitch Ch. Linnet. Mr. G. 

 Shiel of Hawick is another very successful 

 breeder, his pepper dog Ch. Dargai being 

 his best of recent years. Ch. lethart, owned 

 by Mr. A. Mutter, was a very good dog. 



Mrs. Spencer has owned two very good 

 specimens in the mustard bitch Ch. Elspeth, 

 and the pepper dog Ch. Braw Lad. Mrs. 

 Peel Hewitt had a very successful pepper 

 dog, Ch. Tommy Atkins, and, later, a good 

 mustard bitch, Ch. Gordon Daisy. 



Mrs. Grieve of Redhill has owned the 

 mustard dogs Ch. Thistle Dandie, and 

 Thistlegrove Crab, and the mustard bitch 

 Ch. Milverton Yet. Mr. M. P. Lucas of the 

 Oaks, Leamington, has at the present time 

 the best kennel of show Dandies, his best 

 specimens being the pepper bitch Ch. 

 Milverton Lady, quite the best bitch of 

 the last year or two, the pepper dogs Ch. 

 Milverton King and Ch. Milverton Duke, 

 the pepper bitch Ch. Milverton Duchess 

 and the mustard bitch Jovial Jenny. The 

 best inmates of my own kennel have been 

 the mustard dog Ch. Kyber, the mustard 

 bitch, Ch. Katrine Fairy, the pepper bitch 

 Ch. Katrine Teaser, and the mustard bitch 

 Katrine Cress, who won championship prize 

 at Manchester Show in 1904, beating Ch. 

 Milverton Lady, and then unfortunately 

 succumbed to distemper. Mrs. Lloyd Ray- 

 ner's mustard dog Ch. Blacket House Yet 

 was a very good one, and her pepper bitch 

 Ch. Ancrum Fanny was also excellent. 

 Other good Dandies of recent years have 

 been Mr. T. B. Potterton's mustard dog 

 Ch. Puff, Mr. Roger's pepper bitch Ch. 

 Ashleigh Gyp, Mr. Gram's mustard bitch 



Ch. Oakapple. Amongst others who have 

 been prominent in exhibiting Dandies in 

 recent years or in forwarding the interest 

 of the breed in other ways should be men- 

 tioned Mrs. Simpson Shaw, Miss M. Collyer, 

 Miss Briscoe, Mrs. Stark, Messrs. J. Nuts- 

 ford, T. F. Slater, T. I. Tweddle, C. Corn- 

 forth, H. J. Bryant, H. J. Bidwell, A. J. F. 

 Nugent, G. F. Hempson, W. Goodall-Cope- 

 stake, A. MacCulloch, Thomson, Millican, 

 Valentine, Nightingale, MacNamara, W. 

 Chalmers, H. S. Whipp, Ashmur Bond, J. 

 Dillon, Dunn, Millar, Scott, Telfer, Riddle, 

 Backhouse, Pengilly, Farrar-Roberts, Adam- 

 son, Stevenson, Irwin Scott, J. Wilson, Dr. 

 Clay, and Dr. Smith. 



The Dandie Dinmont Terrier Club, to 

 which allusion has been made, is now one 

 of the oldest of specialist clubs; the Hon. 

 Secretary is Mrs. Simpson-Shaw of Aveley, 

 Essex, and the annual subscription is half 

 a guinea. 



Though the Dandie is not at the present 

 time so popular as a show dog as some few 

 other breeds, such as Fox-terriers, still, 

 wherever the classification at shows is such 

 as to encourage entries the classses almost 

 invariably fill. At recent shows of the 

 Scottish Kennel Club at Edinburgh the 

 entries in the Dandie classes have exceeded 

 100, and at the Kennel Club Show at the 

 Crystal Palace they have reached 84. 



We have practical proof that the best 

 specimens of modern times are considered 

 by experts to have reached a high pitch of 

 excellence, for at Cruft's Show at the 

 Agricultural Hall, in London, in 1902, the 

 pepper bitch Ch. Bonnie Lassie was awarded 

 the prize for the best terrier of any breed 

 in the show, and in the year 1906 at the 

 same venue a similar honour was won by 

 the pepper dog Ch. Milverton King, belong- 

 ing to Mr. Lucas. 



The popularity of the Dandie has now 

 lasted for nearly a hundred years, and there 

 is no reason why it should not last for 

 another century, if breeders will only steer 

 clear of the exaggeration of show points, 

 and continue to breed a sound, active, and 

 hardy terrier. 



