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from 10 lbs. to 18 lbs., the bitches being nearly as heavy 
as the dogs—perhaps about 2 lbs. less. 
The colours most fancied are steel with black tips, 
fawn with dark brown tips to the ears and tail, dark slaty 
blue (slightly grizzled, but without any absolute admix- 
ture of white), black, and pure fawn—the order we have 
named. being in accordance with the value of each. The 
hair should be long, straight, and shining like that of the 
tail of the horse, any appearance of silkiness, woolliness, 
or curl being to be avoided, excepting on the top of the 
head, where it may have a slight tendency to the first- 
named condition. 
The points are : Coat, 25; colour, 20; head, 10; ears, 
10; length of body, 10; carriage of tail, 10; symmetry, 15. 
The Dandie Dinmont resembles the Skye terrier in 
general appearance, but there are several points of great 
- importance by which the two may be distinguished. As 
stated in the /e/d, and not contradicted, Sir Walter Scott 
was the first to draw attention to this breed in the second 
of the Waverley series of novels, in which Dandie Din- 
mont, of Charlieshope, is introduced as the owner of 
“auld Pepper and auld Mustard, and young Pepper and 
young Mustard, and little Pepper and little Mustard,” 
which he had “a’ regularly entered, first wi’ rottens, then 
wi’ ‘stots or weazels, and then wi’ the tods and brocks, 
and now,” as he said, “they fear naething that ever cam’ 
wi’ a hairy skin on’t.” According to this high authority 
in matters canine, therefore, the dog of his day was a good 
vermin-killer, and so he remains to this day. The original 
of this strongly-marked character was a Mr. James David- 
son of Hindlee, holding from Lord Douglas a wild farm 
on the edge of the Teviotdale mountains, bordering closely 
on Liddesdale. He was an ardent fox-hunter, according 
to the fashion of the district, which is detailed at length 
in the twenty-fifth chapter of “Guy Mannering,” and 
which, as Sir Walter remarks, was conducted in a manner 
to “ shock a member of the Pytchley Hunt”—the fox 
(tod) being coursed by an indefinité number of “large 
and fierce greyhounds,” when driven from his earth by 
the “terriers, including the whole generation of Pepper 
