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ticked with white, which had yellow eyes. It was truly 

 a splendid and very beautiful animal, of a most recherche 

 colour. Matched with a silver-gray tabby, a silver-gray 

 tick is generally the sequence. A yellow-white will possibly 

 prove excellent. Try it ! 



WHITE AND BLACK. 



For white and black choose evenly marked animals, in 

 which white predominates. I have seen three differently 

 bred cats, white, with black ears and tails, all else being 

 white, and been informed of others. I failed to notice the 

 colour of the eyes which came under my own observation, 

 for which I am sorry, for much depends on the colour of the 

 eyes in selection ; for though the parents are white and 

 black, many gray and white, tabby and white, even yellow 

 and white will appear among the kittens, gray being the 

 original colour, and black the sport. 



BLACK AND WHITE. 



A DEEP brown, dense black ground, with a blaze up the 

 face, white nose and lips, should be chosen — white chest 

 and white feet, Get a female as nearly as possible so 

 marked, and being a dense blue-black, both with orange 

 eyes, when satisfactorily marked, and sable and white kittens 

 may be expected. 



BLUE TABBY. 



A SLATE colour, or a blue male cat, mated with a strongly 

 black-marked, though narrow-banded blue or gray tabby, is 

 the best for dark blue tabbies, or a light-gray, evenly- 

 marked female may be used. What a lovely thing a white 

 cat, marked with black stripes, would be ! It may be got. 



