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with the dictates of fashion. It goes without 

 saying that what a public taste demands, every 

 effort will be made to attain the same, and breed- 

 ers will strive their utmost to produce this shade. 

 Many who do not understand scientific matings 

 to obtain these desirable colors have fallen into 

 a very natural mistake in so doing. In regard to 

 the mahogany brindles they say, why not breed 

 continuously together rich mahogany sires and 

 dams, and then we shall always have the brindles 

 we desire. "Like produces like" is a truism 

 often quoted, but there are exceptions, and Bos- 

 ton terrier breeding furnishes an important one. 

 A very few years of breeding this way will give 

 a brown, solid color, without a particle of brindle, 

 or even worse, a buckskin. If the foundation 

 stock is a lighter brindle to start, the result will 

 be a mouse color. The proper course to pursue 

 is to take a golden brindle bitch that comes from 

 a family noted for that shade, and mate her with 

 a dark mahogany brindle dog that comes from an 

 ancestry possessed of that color. The bitch from 

 this mating can be bred to dark mahogany brin- 

 dles, and the females from this last mating bred 

 again to dark mahogany males, but now a change 

 is necessary. The maxim, "twice in and once 

 out," applies here. The last bred bitches should 

 be bred this time to a golden brindle dog, and 

 same process repeated, that is, the bitches from 



