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and, at the present time, it is very difficult 
for a Dandie that is not reasonably sound 
as to legs and feet to win much distinction. 
We used to be told that a Dandie’s feet 
should be turned out to the side, so as to 
enable him the more readily to follow his 
prey below ground, the apostles of this 
creed pointing to the mole and to its 
formation of foot. But we have not heard 
so much of the necessity for the Dandie’s 
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somewhat quaint appearance, that he ob- 
tained such popularity. It therefore behoves 
the admirers and breeders of the Dandie 
at the present day to see to it that he loses 
nothing of his fitness and capability to 
perform the duties that should fall to the 
lot of a hardy sporting terrier. He must 
be bred not too big and heavy, he must 
have a good, thick weather-resisting coat, 
sound legs and feet, and, above everything 
else, a sound constitution; then, provided 
always that he is properly educated and 
entered to his work, he will be found as 
capable of performing it as -he was in the 
days of James Davidson. But those who 
want to use their terriers for work should 
bear in mind Davidson’s advice about 
“entering”? them to it. 
I believe that there are very few breeds 
of the dog in which the appearance and 
MR. M. P. LUCAS'S CH. MILVERTON KING 
BY CALLUM BEG——QUEENIE. 
feet to be turned out to the side since it 
was pointed out that the fox and the 
badger, the rabbit and the rat, all have 
straight feet, and yet they all excel at 
making their way below ground! 
For my own part I am inclined to think 
that the theory really owed its origin to 
the difficulty of breeding and rearing 
Dandies whose feet have not a tendency 
to turn out to the side; the weight of the 
long body of the animal naturally inclines 
the feet that way. But a straight, sound 
foot is certainly more pleasing to the eye 
than a crooked one, and far more service- 
able to the dog, so it is most devoutly 
to be hoped that the theory of the advo- 
cates of the “mole” formation of foot 
may never gain any ground. 
It should always be remembered that the 
Dandie, about whom ‘“ The Wizard of the 
North” casts such a halo of romance, was 
originally a hardy, working terrier, of most 
indomitable pluck, and it was owing to 
these good qualities, coupled with his 
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MR. M. P. LUCAS’S CH, MILVERTON LADY 
BY KELSO SCOUT—MAYFIELD LILY 
Photographs by Lippiatt, Leamington. 
outward characteristics of the race have 
remained so unchanged from early days as 
in the case of the Dandie Dinmont Terrier. 
A comparison of the pictures contained in 
Mr. Cook’s book, more particularly the 
portraits of Border Queen, whelped in 1877, 
and of Tweedmouth, who was whelped in 
1879, with the portraits of the best speci- 
mens of the present day, will show that the 
type now is much what it was some thirty 
or SO years ago. 
We have all of us heard of terriers who 
have made a great name for themselves as 
