and born in the year 1734.  James Allan died in 1810, and was survived by a son who sold to Mr. Francis Somner at Yetholm a terrier dog named Old Pepper, descended from his grandfather’s famous dog Hitchem.  Old Pepper was the great-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 ancestors 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, without 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 considerable numbers by the Border farmers and others to meet the demand for it which had sprung up since the appearance of Guy Mannering.

As a result of the controversies that were continually recurring with regard to the points of a typical Dandie Dinmont there was formed in the year 1876 the Dandie Dinmont Terrier Club, with the object of settling the question for ever, and for this purpose all the most noted breeders and others interested were invited to give their views upon it.

The standard of points adopted by the club is as follows:—­

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HEAD—­Strongly made and large, not out of proportion to the dog’s size; the muscles showing extraordinary development, more especially the maxillary.  SKULL—­Broad between the ears, getting gradually less towards the eyes, and measuring about the same from the inner corner of the eyes to back of skull as it does from ear to ear.  The forehead well domed.  The head is covered with very soft silky hair, which should not be confined to a mere topknot, and the lighter in colour and silkier it is the better.  The cheeks, starting from the ears proportionately with the skull, have a gradual taper towards the muzzle, which is deep and strongly made, and measures about three inches in length, or in proportion to skull as three is to five.  The muzzle is covered with hair of a little darker shade than the topknot, and of the same texture as the feather of the fore-legs.  The top of the muzzle is generally bare for about an inch from the black part of the nose, the bareness coming to a point towards the eye, and being about one inch broad at the nose.  The nose and inside of mouth black or dark coloured.  The teeth very strong, especially the canine, which are of extraordinary size for such a small dog.  The canines fit well into each other, so as to give the greatest available holding and punishing power, and the teeth are level