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8. Princess, 11 months old, a black and white bitch, by Dash — Crop, 

 pupped August 20, 1835, not broken. Mr. Walker. 25 guineas. 



9. Bell, 1 1 months old, a black and white bitch, by Dash — Crop, pupped 

 August 20, 1835, not broken. Mr. Martyn. 34 guineas. 



10. A puppy, 4 months old, black and white, by Regent — Crop, pupped 

 March 5, 1836. Lord Douglas. 15 guineas. 



1 1. A puppy, 4 months old, black and white, by Regent— Crop, pupped 

 March 5, 1836. Mr. Robinson. 15 guineas. 



Mr. Robinson was the gentleman who made the foregoing public in 

 a letter to the Field, January, 1870, and he mentions that Princess had a 

 little tan about the face. He bid on her, so that he is a competent witness. 

 It will be seen that of the eleven lots, there was but one black and tan, 

 and not alone that, but the Duke was breeding from tricolours and also 

 from black and white, so that even admitting that among those given away 

 prior to the sale, there was a preponderance of black and tans, yet no one 

 who was a stickler for colour, or was forming a strain, would have bred so 

 indiscriminately when there were plenty of the desired colour to be had 

 from other breeders at that time. " Idstone " (the Rev. Mr. Pearce) states 

 that a brace of black and tans with frills went to the Duke of Abercorn, and 

 nine went to the Duke of Argyll and Viscount Bolingbroke. " Idstone " 

 adds that eleven setters would have been a poor team for Gordon Castle, 

 and that possibly the Duchess, who had little fancy for sports, got rid of 

 them. Still this hardly bears out what Laverack says in this paragraph: 

 "Two years after the decease of Alexander, Duke of Gordon, I went to 

 Gordon Castle, purposely to see the breed of setters. In an interview with 

 Jubb, the keeper, he showed me three black tans, the only ones left, and 

 which I thought nothing of. Some years after, I rented on lease the Cabrach 

 shootings, Banffshire, belonging to the Duke of Richmond, adjoining 

 Glenfiddich, where His Grace shot. I often saw Jubb and his setters. 

 Then and now, all the Gordon Castle setters were black, white and tan." 

 Mr. Laverack emphasises the last statement by putting it in italics. 



Duke, the black and tan dog sold as " Lot i ," was not bred by the Duke, 

 but by Captain Barclay, from whom the Duke bought him, and this prob- 

 ably accounts for the manner in which his pedigree is given, to show that, 

 although bred out of the kennels, he was yet by one of the Duke's dogs. 

 This Captain Barclay was a celebrated sportsman and athlete, and was the 

 first man to walk one thousand miles in one thousand hours, one mile each 



