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little information extant as to the early history of 

 the setter. What there is I have endeavoured to 

 compress into suitable shape and form, and, 

 perhaps, from the three following chapters, those 

 readers who are interested in the subject will be 

 able to obtain some idea as to the period when the 

 ordinary setter came to be divided into the three 

 distinct races, as he is found at the present day, and 

 of which I should say that the black-and-tan is the 

 youngest variety of all. 



