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After this '' evening with the Doctor/^ we longed 

 for the summer and the Avaterside, and July found us 

 at Hawick once more. Sandy, with his white flan» 

 nels, his red cap, and his brass-tipped pole, had come 

 from Carlisle by the train, and was seated snugly on 

 one side of the fire-place, discussing the science and 

 swagger of his darling Malakhoff, and the courage 

 of " old John Peel/^ The little fellow quite warmed 

 up as he told how the old white was always ^' a rock 

 hunter on stones and likeliest places,^^ and how of 

 all dogs he most fulfilled his wish to "see them 

 swagger and hunt with natur.^^ Of course we ad- 

 journed to the kennel, to see what was drawn for the 

 morning. Bobby, the ex-pugilist bull-terrier, never 

 goes out, as, if another dog comes among the pack, 

 lie cracks it up like a nut ; and then there^s a row, 

 which the Doctor, who knows the full advantages of 

 conciliation, hates of all things. 



So, like the grim but " liberal-hearted dog^^ that 

 he is, Bobby stops to keep house ; and if any of the 

 young dogs are to be entered at the badger (which 



he by Sii' George's Pepper II. (from his Schann, bred at Bowhill by the Duke 

 of Buccleuch's ''old grey Pepper"), he by Sii- George's Pepper I.' (from Mr,^ 

 Lang's bitch), he by old Stoddart's Dandie II. (from Schami, Iwed by Scott of 

 Hindley, successor to James Davidson), he by Stoddart's Daudie I., Tvho was 

 the vw)<f 7-eiiowned sire of kin day, and pea"hapsV/(e hest dog of the breed that ever 

 lived. This dog was out of James Davidson of ^Hindley 's Gyp (G.^qosie), but. 

 his sire is unkno-v^-n. Vixen, the dam of my Shamrock, was by Mr. James 

 Scott's Sharm-ock (from Spice), he bj' Mr. Brisbane's Dandy, which came 

 from Amisfield, and was In-ed by Lord Elcho, who got |his terriers from the 

 late William Eeid of Jedburgh, one of the gi-eatest breeders of the race at an 

 early period. Eeid obtained his ten-iers from James Da\'itlson of HuitUey, 

 Mr.'Dun of Whitelee, the Bells of Hindalea Mill, and others. Spice was Ijy 

 Mr. Brisbane's Shem, which leads us back (patemalhi) to Mr. Svminer's Shem, 

 Mr. Todd's Charhe, and again to the renowned " old Dandie" of old Stoddart 

 of Selkirk.— J. G. 



