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cation of brindle. She had a shorter face and 

 heavier jowl than the dog, and was altogether in 

 accordance with the type now recognised as the 

 correct ( Willoughby pug.' From this pair are 

 descended all the strain named after Lady Willoughby 

 de Eresby, which are marked in colour by their 

 peculiar cold stone fawn, and the excess of black 

 often showing itself, not in brindled stripes, but in 

 entirely or nearly entirely black heads, and large 

 ' saddle marks ' or wide ' traces.' 



" But coincidently with this formation of a new 

 strain was the existence of another, showing a richer 

 and more yellow fawn, and no tendency to excess of 

 black. This strain was possessed by the late Mr. 

 Morrison, of Walham Green ; the late Mr. H. Gilbert, 

 of Kensington; the late Mr. W. M'Donald, and 

 some others. According to Mr. Morrison's state- 

 ment to me, this strain was lineally descended from 

 a stock possessed by Queen Charlotte, one of which 

 is painted with great care in the well-known portrait 

 of George III. at Hampton Court ; but I could never 

 get him to reveal the exact source from which it was 

 obtained. That he himself fully believed in the 

 truth of this story I am quite confident ; and I am 

 also of opinion that he never hazarded a statement 

 of which he had the slightest doubt. Although he 

 never broadly stated as much, I always inferred that 



