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same name. A serious feature in connection 

 with this is, that the longer this line of breeding 

 is persisted in, the harder will be the task to 

 breed away. In fact, in my estimation it will 

 be as difficult as the elimination of white. One 

 important fact in connection here is that black 

 color is more pronounced from white stock than 

 from brindle. I recently went into the kennels 

 of a man who has started a comparatively short 

 time ago, and who has been most energetic in 

 his endeavors to produce a line of dark seal 

 brindles, and who is much perplexed because he 

 has a lot of stock on hand, while first rate in 

 every other respect, are with coats as black as 

 crows and not worth ten dollars apiece. He 

 seemed very much surprised when I told him 

 his mistake, but grateful to be shown a way out 

 of his difficulty. A visit to another kennel not 

 far from the last revealed the fact that the owner 

 was advertising and sending largely to the West 

 what he called black brindles, but as devoid of 

 brindle as a frog is of feathers. His case was 

 rather amusing, as he honestly believed that be- 

 cause the dog was a Boston terrier its color of 

 necessity must be a brindle. He reminded me 

 a good deal of a man who started a dog store 

 in Boston a number of years ago who advertised 

 in his windows a Boston terrier for sale cheap. 

 Upon stepping in to see the dog all that pre- 



