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are as hardy as those of any other. Priam and Rap 

 of his never had their superiors, and though Mr. 

 Whitehouse does not give so much time to his 

 pointers as formerly, he has been the means of 

 popularising the "lemons and whites" in such a 

 fashion that they are not likely to die out. North- 

 wards, the county of Durham seems to have 

 obtained a strong strain of this colour, and at the 

 Darlington shows, held annually at the end of July, 

 a capital display of them is usually seen, indeed, 

 nearly all the shooting men in that locality have had 

 at one time or another, and still have, lemon and 

 white pointers in their kennels. 



There was that good dog Don IX., and several 

 others with which Mr. Ridley (Ferryhill, Durham), 

 was so successful. The Peases, too, had them, and 

 this kennel included some of the smartest small-sized 

 dogs I ever saw. The dam of the writer's old bitch, 

 Miss Prim, who did a good deal of winning in her 

 time, and was as good as anything else in the field, 

 was from the Durham side a remarkably handsome 

 bitch, spoiled by being wide in front, but this was 

 due to the accident of bad rearing, and was not 

 constitutional. The late Mr. G. Maw, of Bishop 

 Auckland, had an extra good lemon and white in 

 Peg, fast and good, and who was, unfortunately, run 

 over and killed by a train earlier on that fatal day 



