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CHAPTER XLII. 
THE DANDIE DINMONT. 
BY E. W. H. BLAGG. 
‘“¢ 4 bonny terrier that, sir—and a fell chield at the vermin, I warrant him—that is, if he’s been 
weel entered, for it a’ lies im that. 
‘“* Really, sir, said Brown, ‘his education has been somewhat neglected, and his chief property 
is being a pleasant companion.’ 
“« Ay, sir? that’s a pity, begging your pardon—it’s a great pity that—beast or body, education 
should aye be minded. I have six terriers at hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, 
and a wheen other dogs. There’s auld Pepper and auld Mustard, and young Pepper and young 
Mustard, and little Pepper and little Mustard—I had them a’ regularly entered, first wv’ rottens— 
then wi’ stots or weasels—and then wi’ the tods and brocks—and now they fear naething that ever 
cam wi’ a hairy skin ont.’ 
“<«T fave no doubt, sir, they are thorough-bred—but, to have so many dogs, you seem to have a 
very limited variety of names for them ?’ 
“<0, that’s a fancy of my ain to mark the breed, sir—The Deuke himsell has sent as far as Charlies- 
hope to get ane o’ Dandie Dinmont’s Pepper and Mustard terriers—Lord, man, he sent Tam Hudson 
the keeper, and sicken a day as we had wi’ the foumarts and the tods, and sicken a blythe gae-down 
as we had again een! 
HE breed of terrier now known as the 
Dandie Dinmont is one of the races 
of the dog which can boast of a fairly 
ancient lineage. Though it is impossible 
now to say what was the exact origin of 
this breed, we know that it was first recog- 
nised under its present name after the 
publication of Scott’s “‘Guy Mannering,”’ 
in the year 1814, and we know that for 
many years previously there had existed in 
the Border counties a rough-haired, short- 
legged race of terrier, the constant and 
very effective companion of the Border 
farmers and others in their fox-hunting 
expeditions. 
Various theories have been suggested by 
different writers as to the manner in which 
the breed was founded. Some say that 
the Dandie is the result of crossing a strain 
of rough-haired terriers with the Dachs- 
hund; others that a rough-haired terrier 
was crossed with the Otterhound; and 
others again assert that no direct cross 
was ever introduced to found the breed, 
but that it was gradually evolved from 
the rough-haired terriers of the Border 
Faith, that was a night !’’’—* Guy MANNERING.” 
district. And this latter theory is the one 
that I myself am inclined to accept. 
The Dandie would appear to be closely 
related to the Bedlington Terrier. In both 
breeds we find the same indomitable pluck, 
the same pendulous ear, and a light silky 
“top-knot ” adorning the skull of each ; 
but the Dandie was evolved into a long- 
bodied, short-legged dog, and the Bedling- 
ton became a long-legged, short-bodied dog! 
Indeed to illustrate the close relation- 
ship of the two breeds a case is quoted 
of the late Lord Antrim, who, in the early 
days of dog shows, exhibited two animals 
from the same litter, and with the one 
obtained a prize or honourable mention in 
the Dandie classes, and with the other a 
like distinction in the Bedlington classes. 
It may be interesting to give a few par- 
ticulars concerning the traceable ancestors of 
the modern Dandie. In Mr. Charles Cook’s 
book on this breed, we are given particulars 
of one William Allan, of Holystone, born 
in 1704, and known as Piper Allan, and 
celebrated as a hunter of otters and foxes, 
and for his strain of rough-haired terriers 
