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to say, the produce were,equally the colour of pepper and mustard. The last 
pair I saw of what I considered perfect Dandies were Robert Donkin’s, at 
Ingram, near Alnwick, just before I left the North in 1838. I have been at 
shows, but could never identify any Dandies shown as at all like the original 
breed belonging to the Telfords of Blind Burn, the Elliots of Cottonshope, the 
Donkins of Ingram, and other Border farmers. I am not a doggy man, but 
like to see all old breeds kept distinct. 
J. Davison, 
ANDOVER, December 2. 
Thus we have the evidence of Mr. Matthias Smith, founded on a 
comparison of portraits and stuffed skins with modern dogs, my 
own opinion, depending on the portrait and a specimen sent south- 
wards to a friend of mine nearly fifty years ago, and the above 
letter from Mr. Davison, all tending to prove that the modern 
show Dandie is not identical with the original breed. I have 
thrown out a suggestion that the latter, supposing it to exist, is 
due to a cross with the dachshund, but this was indignantly denied 
by Mr. Bradshaw Smith, who maintained that it is quite impossible 
to have been effected without his knowledge, and that he was posi- 
tive no such cross has taken place. It is certainly very remark- 
able that the peculiarities of the dachshund (bodily and mental) 
should be so fully marked as they are in the Dandie of the present 
day, and that they should be exactly those points in which the 
latter differs, or is said to differ, from the old breed. Extra length 
of body, bandy fore-legs, a peculiar turn of the stifles, a high loin, 
and long ears, are all bodily characteristics. of the two breeds, while 
the want of control over the hunting tendency is equally marked 
as a mental peculiarity. It is, however, treason to whisper such a 
suspicion among Dandie fanciers, and so I shall beg my readers to 
consider the above unwritten, and to accept the dicta of the Dandie 
Club, with Mr. Bradshaw Smith as their authority, as being incon- 
trovertible, in spite of all the proof that can be brought against 
them. ' 
XVIII.—THE SMOOTH ENGLISH TERRIERS. , : 
England has been noted for its terriers as long as we have any 
reliable record of our native breeds of dogs. Until the time of 
Daniel, who published his celebrated book on “ Rural Sports” in 
