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men to look after and train them, breaking them in 

 the first instance for public work alone, though after 

 their advent as puppies they are well able to do 

 their duty amongst the grouse in Scotland. 



So successful was the initial Field Trial meeting 

 that others followed, and so they have been continued, 

 and exist at the present day. Some writers have 

 endeavoured to make a distinction between the work 

 done by the liver and white dogs and by the lemon 

 and whites, one advocating the one colour and others 

 the other. But let me say colour has nothing what- 

 ever to do with the work of a dog. Both have 

 originally come from the same strains, and, given 

 equal opportunities, will be equally good. My field 

 trial and shooting experiences over dogs have been 

 long continued without any material cessation, 

 and during this period I have seen good and bad 

 of all colours, excepting, perhaps, I have never seen 

 a really good field trial performer a whole brown. 

 Blacks I have seen, and black and whites too, good 

 enough for anyone, and there are fresh in my mind 

 Mr. W. Arkwright's ugly black dog Tap, that per- 

 formed so well at the meetings in 1892, his dam 

 was, however, a lemon and white bitch. Another, 

 called Nigger, that Mr. Herbert Brown had two 

 or three years ago, which came from a strain 

 Mr. J. H. Salter had in his kennels, and valued 



