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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. Iethart, 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 
h. 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. Oram’s mustard bitch 
THE. NEW “BOOK 
OF THE DOG: 
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 
oo, 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. 
