230 Modem Dogs. 



was brought about by the unfortunate Dash breaking 

 one of his legs. 



At the close of the past century, and about the 

 beginning of the present one, the pointers were pretty 

 similar in colour to what they are now brown, or 

 liver and white, lemon and orange, and white ; some 

 heavily flecked or ticked with these colours on a 

 white ground, others black ; and no doubt there 

 would be pure browns or livers, as there are occa- 

 sionally now, though we do not read of them. 

 Sometimes we see pointers with white ticks or 

 flecks on a brown ground, and they, though odd, 

 are by no means unsightly. About ninety years 

 ago the Earl of Lauderdale had a strain of very 

 small pointers that would be little more than 3olb. 

 in weight ; they bore a reputation for excelling 

 in their work, but were generally considered too 

 diminutive to be so useful as the bigger dogs as 

 we have them now. They were, however, a novelty, 

 and were likely enough introduced from France, 

 where, about that time, a small and lightly made 

 pointer was quite common. 



Earlier than this the Duke of Kingston owned a 

 celebrated strain of black pointers ; but they, not being 

 so easy to see when in work as a white dog or one 

 nearly white, the colour never became popular. 

 Still a superstition remains to this day, in some 



