...six terriers at hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs. There 's auld Pepper and auld Mustard, and young Pepper and...a' regularly entered, first wi' rottens, then wi' slots or weasels, and then wi' the tods and brocks ; and now they fear naething that ever cam wi' a...

...of AD 1540 helping us, when we remember Dandie Dinmont's account of how he entered his terriers, " first wi' rottens — then wi' stots or weasels — and then wi' the tods and brocks," the place in question moreover being by the waterside. Of the St. John's-street which Rudder or his...