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up the crossing with the King Charles the white 

 disappeared, and at the present time there are 

 sufficient Ruby dogs and Ruby bitches to breed 

 from Ruby parents on both sides so long as neither 

 parent has Blenheim blood in its veins. Thus easily 

 has this choice and handsome variety become 

 perpetuated. 



The tri-colours have always been, but by continual 

 in-breeding with the darker coloured black and 

 tans the latter are usually born free from white, 

 although many of the best specimens even now 

 have a few white hairs sprinkled up and down the 

 coat and on the chest. Mrs. Forder is of my opinion, 

 that the short noses are the result of in-breeding, 

 which by that process, like any other deformity, 

 can be accentuated. 



Blenheims and tri-colours are sometimes bred 

 together, with a result that you obtain the two 

 varieties from the one litter ; but when the black and 

 tan and the Blenheim are crossed the most probable 

 result is not the two varieties, but King Charles 

 with white on them in the shape of a patch on the 

 breast, on the forehead, or on the feet. There is no 

 doubt that at the present time, with the material at 

 command, there is not the slightest reason to make 

 any crosses between the varieties ; all are sufficiently 

 distinct and representative, thus by freedom from 



