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than a-half. We pass the ventilating barn and the 

 Commended at Stirling Leicester (which was on trial 

 with ten highly-caked Southdown ewe culls), to meet 

 Whipper-in (19139), a well-made, fine-handling bull, 

 but rather deficient in his hocks. This Koyal red roan 

 succeeded Prince Arthur (16723) by Booth's Lord of 

 the Valley (14337), who was a twin, bred by Mr. Am- 

 bler, and left a number of dark reds behind him. 



The cows and heifers had to be sought in the 

 park, and we beguiled the way by a chat with Jubb, 

 the head keeper, whose seven-and-thirty black-and- 

 white tans were spreading themselves out like a fan 

 in the kennel meadow. Three-and-thirty of them 

 were just starting to " The Glen," or Glenfiddich and 

 Blackwater, which march with each other. Originally 

 the Gordon setters were all black and tan ; and Lord 

 E. G. Halliburton's Sweep > Admiral Wemyss' Pilot, 

 Major Douglas's Backet, Lord Breadalbane's Tom, 

 and other great craftsmen of the breed were of that 

 colour. Now all the setters in the castle kennel are 

 entirely black and white, with a little tan on the toes, 

 muzzle, root of the tail, and round the eyes. The 

 late Duke of Gordon liked it, as it was both gayer 

 and not so difficult to back on the hill-side as the 

 dark-coloured. They are light in frame and merry 

 workers ; and, as Jubb says, ' ' better put up half-a- 

 dozen birds than make a false point." The compo- 

 site colour was produced by using black-and-tan dogs 

 to black-and-white bitches ; and at the sale in July, 

 1836, eleven setters averaged 36 gs. The five-year- 



