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in support of my argument, I may say that I have seen a Dandie stuffed called 

 Old Pepper, which belonged to Mr. Pat. Lang, banker, at Selkirk. Dogs 

 owned by Mr. Locke, of Selkirk ; by Mr. Scott, of Jedburgh ; by Mr. Miller, 

 "a prize taker," of Moffat ; numbers owned, of different strains, by small and 

 limited fanciers— all without one exception differ entirely from the portrait at 

 Abbotsford and the " stuffed " one at Blackwood House. Further in support 

 of my argument, some of the oldest breeders of the so-called Dandies admit 

 they are mongrels, and not " pure," because it is quite a chance if in a litter of 

 their pups one will find two alike. Matthias Smith. 



125 Hyde Pakk Road, Leeds. 



Entirely concurring as I do with the above opinions, and having 

 previously stated almost exactly similar ones in " The Field," I 

 think it desirable to adduce Mr. Smith's testimony, though I con- 

 fess I do not attach any great importance to the question of 

 purity, nor to the Walter Scott type as the ideal of perfection. 

 Still, if fanciers desire the original breed in all its pristine purity 

 I agree with Mr. Smith that it is not presented to them among 

 the prize-takers at our modern shows. 



But granting, as I think we must, that the modern Dandie 

 is not purely descended from the old Teviot strain, it becomes 

 a question what cross has been employed to produce the 

 change. Now the variation is — (i) in ear; (2) in length 

 of body; (3) in width of chest and bandiness of fore-legs; 

 and (4) in temperament; and when we find all these points 

 combined in the dachshund and in no other breed, it is a 

 natural consequence that we should come to the conclusion that 

 recourse has been at some time had to the latter as a cross, 

 possibly not intentionally but from accident. But not being 

 like Mr. Smith, quixotic enough to expect breeders of the 

 Dandie to set to work afresh with a view to resuscitate 

 his original shape, I am content to take him as I find him 

 in the kennels of Mr. Bradshaw Smith, Mr. James Locke; 

 and other well-known breeders, and, excepting with his peculiar ; 



