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bronze shading on the cheeks. They carried their 

 heads well in the field, and in work were quite equal 

 to what they were in appearance. 



More modern kennels were those of Sir R. Garth, 

 Q.C., and Mr. J. H. Whitehouse, Ipsley Court, 

 Redditch ; and the latter must be taken as the 

 connecting link between the present generation and 

 the past one. 



Mr. W. Brailsford informs me that, between 1830 

 and 1840 or so, the best pointers were certainly to 

 be found in the Midlands. In addition to the 

 kennels already named Mr. Cell, Hopton Hall, 

 Wirksworth, had a choice lot of dogs. Mr. Statham, 

 of Derby, alluded to before, owned some good look- 

 ing, double-nosed dogs of the Spanish type ; and 

 perhaps his other pointers contained more crosses 

 with those from Mr. Moore, of Appleby Hall, than any 

 other kind. The double-nosed strain soon died out. 



Mr. Martin, at the Laxton kennels, had mostly 

 black and white dogs, still there were some lemon 

 and white amongst them. Mr. Edge had given his 

 sole attention to the liver and white, and no doubt 

 to him their popularity at the present day is attri- 

 butable. Lord Chesterfield, at Gedling, whose 

 kennel was under the charge of the father of my 

 informant, also had some black and whites of great 

 excellence. 



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