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who so ably assisted him in the chase. 
William Allan’s terriers descended to his 
son James, also known as the “ Piper,” 
and born in the year 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 
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FROM AN OLD PRINT. 
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. What wud a piper 
do w’ 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- 
THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 
grandsire of Mr. Somner’s well-known dog 
Shem. 
These terriers belonging to the Allans 
and others in the district are considered 
by Mr. 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 
the Teviotdale mountains. 
James Davidson died in 
the 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, Whitelee, the Duke 
of Buccleuch, the Duke of 
Northumberland, the Duke of Roxburgh, 
the Hon. George Hamilton Baillie, 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, Newstead ; Nicol Milne, Faldonside ; 
John Stewart Lyon, Kirkmichael ; James 
Aitken, 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 
