"The Dogs Among the Bushes", in Gaelic "Na madraide ameasg na tomaib" or "Na madri ameasg na dtom", also known as "Athole Brose" or "Brandlings" is an Irish reel in E Mixolydian (O'Neill/Krassen), G Major/Mixolydian (O'Neill/1850 & 1001) or G Major (Flaherty, Mulvihill). The parts are played AB (Mulvihill, O'Neill/1850 & 1001), AABB (O'Neill/Krassen) or AA'BB' (Flaherty). The tune is a close variant of the Scottish reel "Athole Brose" (and Neil Gow's "Brandlings"), also known as the strathspey "Buckingham House". In County Donegal the tune is played in the key of A Major (as in Scotland), unlike the rest of Ireland which plays it in G Major. An early recording of the melody was by Frank O'Higgins (1891-1975), a fiddler from Glenamona, Kilskeer, County Meath, in Dublin in 1937 (who paired the tune with "The Merry Sisters" and "Kitty Gone a-Milking", still a widely imitated medley. The tune is circular (does not end on the tonic note) so I added a "fine" measure. It was printed in Flaherty's Trip to Sligo (1990), Mulvihill's 1st Collection (1986), Krassen's O'Neill's Music of Ireland (1976), O'Neill's Music of Ireland: 1850 Melodies (1903) and O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland: 1001 Gems (1907). It was recorded by The Chieftains on The Best of the Chieftains (1992), Solas on The Hour Before Dawn (2000) and Paddy Glackin & Robbie Hannan on The Whirlwind (1995).