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\vho so ably assisted him in tlie chase. 

 ^^■llliam Allan's terriers descended to his 

 son James, also knouTi as the " Piper," 

 and born m the j-ear 1734. An amusing 

 story is told of an attempt on the part of 

 Lord Ravensworth's steward to buy the 

 piper's favourite dog Charley. After the 

 piper had been successful in ridding his 

 lordship's ponds of the otters which in- 

 fested them, William Allan haughtily ex- 

 claiming that his lordship's " hale estate 

 canna buy Charley." It is said that the 



DANDIE DINMONT AND HIS TERRIERS. 



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piper had such confidence in another favour- 

 ite dog of his called Hitchem that at times 

 he would observe, " When my Hitchem 

 gie's mouth I durst always sell the otter's 

 skin." It is related that on one occasion 

 the Duke of Northumberland offered a 

 life rent lease of a small farm to the piper 

 in exchange for Hitchem, but after deliber- 

 ating for a day Allan said : " Na, na, ma 

 lord ; keep yir ferum. Wlrat wud a piper 

 do wi' a ferum ? " James Allan died in 

 1810, and was survived by a son who 

 sold to Mr. Francis Somner at Yet- 

 holm 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 Jlr. Cook to be the earliest known an- 

 cestors 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. However, 

 owing to the circumstance 

 of his calling all his terriers 

 Mustard and Pepper, with- 

 out 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 

 tlie Teviotdale mountains. 



James Davidson died in 

 tlie year 1820, by which time 

 the Dandie Dinmont Terrier 

 was being bred in consider- 

 able numbers by the Border 

 farmers and others to meet 

 the demand for it which had 

 sprung up since the appear- 

 ance of " Guy Mannering." 



Amongst other breeders 

 about this time we find Ned 

 Dunn, \Miitelee, the Duke 

 of Buccleuch, the Duke of 

 Northumberland, the Duke of Roxburgh, 

 the Hon. George Hamilton BaiUie, Sir Walter 

 Scott, Lord Polwarth, the Marquis of Tweed- 

 dale, Messrs. Thomas Stevenson, Jedburgh ; 

 Francis Somner, West Morriston ; John Stod- 

 dart, Selkirk; R. Pringle, The Haining ; Dr. 

 William Brown, Melrose ; ^Messrs. James 

 Scott, Xewstead ; Nicol Milne, Faldonside ; 

 John Stewart Lyon, Kirkmichael ; James 

 .\itken, Maryfield House, Edinburgh ; Dr. 

 Grant, Hawick ; and Mr. E. Bradshaw 

 Smith, of Blackwood House, Ecclefechan. 



In later days we find amongst the leading 

 exhibitors the Rev. Tenison Mosse with his 

 successful dog Shamrock. Messrs. Robert 

 and Paul Scott, of Jedburgh, with their 



