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the beautiful pair, "Druid Merke" and "Vixen/' 

 set the pace and every one followed. A few 

 years later Messrs. Phelps and Davis (who, with 

 the above mentioned gentlemen, were true friends 

 of the breed), sold a handsome pair of seal brin- 

 dles, Chs. "Commissioner II." and "Topsy," to 

 Mr. Borden of New York, and confirmed, if 

 not established, the fashion for that color in that 

 city. I think that all people will agree, from all 

 parts of the country, that New York sets the 

 style for practically everything, from my lady's 

 headgear to the pattern of her equipages, and 

 the edict from that city has decreed that the 

 correct color in Boston terriers is a rich seal 

 brindle, with white markings, with plenty of 

 luster to it, and all sections of the continent 

 promptly say amen ! 



I have taken the pains to look up a number of 

 orders that we have recently received, which in- 

 clude (not enumerating those received from the 

 New England States, or New York), three from 

 Portland, Oregon, one from California, one from 

 St. Louis, one from Mexico, four from Canada, 

 two from Chicago, and one from Texas, and 

 with the exception of two who wished to replace 

 dogs bought of us ten or twelve years previously, 

 they practically all wanted seal brindles. 



These orders were nearly all from bankers and 

 brokers, men who are supposed to be en rapport 



