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same way I always suspect red and white, or black and 

 white, in a pointer, for the converse reason. I may here 

 add that I regard the cross of the setter and pointer, com- 

 monly known as the dopper, as an abominable mongrel. 



There is a breed of black and white and tan setters in 

 the United States, known as the " Webster setters," the 

 original stock having been imported by that great states- 

 man, from, I believe, Lord Derby's kennel. It has not 

 generally turned out well, the blood generally showing 

 softness and timidity in the field. To this I have heard 

 of but one exception. I deem the color altogether doubt- 

 ful and suspicious. Still it remains to be said that the 

 old saying of horses stands good of dogs that good ones 

 are always of good colors, and that there is no absolute 

 rule in these, more than in men, 



" To trace the mind's complexion in the face." 



Before concluding my notice of this dog, I will add 

 that I see lately a much lauded and advertised strain of 

 blood quoted as the " Harewood Setters." Of the merits 

 or alleged origin of these dogs I know nothing. But if 

 they are attributed to the noble Yorkshire family of that 

 title, I fancy there is either some error, or that the strain 

 is very recent. I have known the late and the present 

 Earls of Harewood from my childhood ; I lived within six 

 miles of their seat of the same name, and hunted regularly 

 for many seasons with the late Earl's foxhounds ; I can, 

 therefore, assert without the possibility of error, that up to 

 my leaving England they had no distinctive strain of set- 

 ter blood, but often used our Irish strain, of which I have 



