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    Our Friends the Dandie Dinmont and Skye Terrier
    Our Friends the Dandie Dinmont and Skye Terrier
    Our Friends the Dandie Dinmont and Skye Terrier
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    Our Friends the Dandie Dinmont and Skye Terrier

    By Rowland Johns

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    This is a detailed handbook on the Dandie Dinmont, a small Scottish breed of dog in the terrier family with a very long body, short legs, and a distinctive "top-knot" of hair on the head. It contains chapters on everything from selection and breeding to training and exhibiting, making it a must-have for existing and prospective owners alike. Contents include: "The Origin of the Dandie Dinmont", "Dandie Dinmont Temperament", "The Dandie's Show Career", "The Dandie Dinmont and Skye", "The Dandie Dinmont Terrier", "The Sky Terrier's Origin", "Sky Characteristics", "The Show Skye", "The Sky Terrier: Standard Description", "Puppy Rearing and Training", "The Show Preparation of Dandies and Skyes", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality addition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on dog breeding.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Country Books
    Release dateSep 29, 2017
    ISBN9781473344082
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      Our Friends the Dandie Dinmont and Skye Terrier - Rowland Johns

      TERRIERS

      CHAPTER I

      THE ORIGIN OF THE DANDIE DINMONT

      IT is commonly supposed that the Dandie Dinmont Terrier was given its name by Sir Walter Scott. Actually, however, the name Dandie Dinmont was given by Scott to one of the human characters in his novel, Guy Mannering.

      The Dandie Dinmont of the story was a farmer who always had about him a heterogeneous collection of sporting terriers, whose names give some indication of their temperaments. The dogs which Scott had in mind when he wrote the story probably followed no recognizable pattern, and bore but faint resemblance to the top-knotted Dandie Dinmont Terrier who is so distinct from his fellows of to-day.

      The following extract from the story shows how strongly developed were their sporting proclivities:

      ‘A bonny terrier that, sir—and a fell chield at the vermin, I warrant him—that is, if he’s been weel entered, for it a’ lies in that.’

      ‘Really, sir,’ said Brown, ‘his education has been somewhat neglected, and his chief property is being a pleasant companion.’

      ‘Ay, sir? that’s a pity, begging your pardon—it’s a great pity that—beast or body, education should aye be minded. I have six terriers at hame, forby twa couple of slowhunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs. There’s auld Pepper and auld Mustard, and young Pepper and young Mustard, and little Pepper and little Mustard—I had them a’ regularly entered, first wi’ rottens—then we’ stots or weasels—and then wi’ the tods¹ and brocks—and now they fear naething that ever cam wi’ a hairy skin un’t.’

      ‘I have no doubt, sir, they are thorough-bred—but, to have so many dogs, you seem to have a very limited variety of names for them?’

      ‘O, that’s a fancy of my ain to mark the breed, sir. The Deuke himsell has sent as far as Charlieshope to get ane o’ Dandie Dinmont’s Pepper and Mustard terriers—Lord, man, he sent Tam Hudson the keeper, and sicken a day as we had wi’ the foumarts and the tods, and sicken a blythe gae-down as we had again e’en! Faith, that was a night!’

      Like many another character in fiction, Dandie Dinmont, the farmer, was said by some to have been drawn from life and to resemble a farmer named James Davidson, of Hindlee. But Scott, himself, was unaware of this worthy’s existence at the time the work was written. His intention had been, he said, to portray a particular type of farmer, and he had no individual in mind. However, in 1814—two years after the publication of Guy Mannering—he did meet James Davidson, and the meeting is on record in a letter dated from Abbotsford in 1816, which is given in Lockhart’s Life of

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