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that Laverack was not a breeder at all. He 

 was a professional hunter, and a very strenu- 

 ous one. He used his original brace of setters 

 for hunting purposes, and when they were old 

 he bred them to get more. This second 

 generation was used for hunting purposes 

 until they were old, when he bred brother 

 and sister together to get a third generation. 

 After this generation was old he bred brother 

 and sister to get a fourth, and so on. On one 

 occasion he varied the proceeding by breeding 

 a dog back to his own double granddam, but 

 otherwise it was brother and sister bred 

 together. During this forty years he never 

 bought dogs, never sold dogs, never had many 

 dogs, and the final generation had no blood 

 other than that coming from the original 

 Ponto and Moll. 



A prominent writer on breeding subjects, 

 Arnold Burgess, in commenting on Lave- 

 rack's dogs and Laverack's book, gave it as 

 his opinion that the pedigrees in the book 

 were fraudulent. He based his opinion on 

 the improbability of any one using such an 



