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to say, the produce were equally the colour of pepper and mustard. The last 

 pair I saw of what I considered perfect Dandies were Robert Donkin's, at 

 Ingrain, near Alnwick, just before I left the North in 1838. I'have been at 

 shows, but could never identify any Dandies shown as at all like the original 

 breed belonging to the Telfords of Blind Burn, the Elliots of Cottonshope, the 

 Donkins of Ingram, and other Border 1 farmers. I am not a doggy man, but 

 like to see all old breeds kept distinct. J. Davison. 



Andoveb, December 2. 



Thus we have the evidence of Mr. Matthias Smith, founded 

 on a comparison of portraits and stuffed skins with modern dogs, 

 my own opinion, depending on the portrait and a specimen sent 

 southwards to a friend of mine forty years ago, and the above 

 letter from Mr. Davison, all tending to prove that the modern 

 show Dandie is not identical with the original breed. I have 

 thrown out a suggestion that the latter, supposing it to exist, 

 is due to a cross with the dachshund, but this is indignantly- 

 denied by Mr. Bradshaw Smith, who maintains that it is quite 

 impossible to have been effected without his knowledge, and 

 that he is positive no such cross has taken place. It is certainly 

 very remarkable that the peculiarities of the dachshund (bodily 

 and mental) should be so fully marked as they are in the Dandie 

 of the present day, and that they should be exactly those points 

 in which the latter differs, or is said to differ, from the old breed. 

 Extra length of body, bandy fore-legs, a peculiar turn of the 

 stifles, a high loin, and long ears are all 'bodily characteristics 

 of the two breeds, while the want of control over the hunting 

 tendency is equally marked as a mental peculiarity. It is, 

 however, treason to whisper such a suspicion among Dandie 

 fanciers, and so I shall beg my readers to consider the above- 

 unwritten, and to accept the dicta of the Dandie Club, with 

 Mr. Bradshaw Smith as their authority, as being incontrovertible, 

 in spite of all the proof that can be brought against them. 



