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often seen in lemon-and-white specimens. The long backs 

 have been partly bred out of the setter, but he formerly shared 

 them with his collateral relation the spaniel, and even now 

 he is a longer dog than the pointer. 



Of all these races the greyhound type is the most perfectly 

 formed in body. The dish-faced lemon-and-white kind appear 

 to be the most affectionate (spaniel - like) ; and the hardest 

 workers, with the hardest constitutions, the author believes to 

 be the liver - and - white sort. The principal colours of the 

 original French and Spanish pointers were probably black-and- 

 white and liver-and-white, some of them having very little 

 white, so that it is not suggested that the supposed crossing 

 was alone responsible for the colour. 



The first time a tendency to " grey " was noticed by the 

 author was in the " ticked " pointer Romp, run at a field trial 

 about 1870 in Devonshire by Mr. Brackenbury. The pedigree 

 of this bitch was, to say the least, defective, and the " belton " 

 markings, as also the whole conformation of the animal, was 

 suggestive of the setter. Romp's Baby, a descendant of the 

 above Romp and similar in markings, was also setter-like in 

 build, in feet, and in work. The aforesaid Romp laid the 

 foundation for the best race of pointers in America, but un- 

 fortunately most of the blood has been lost to this country. 

 The profuse ticked markings are rarely seen, but when they 

 do appear it is easy to trace the character of the Romp 

 family. 



Amongst all the pointers and setters the writer has seen 

 he would be puzzled to name the best, but he can say without 

 the smallest hesitation that Romp's Baby was by far the best 

 small one. 



Sir Richard Garth's Drake was the best pointer that ever 

 contested a field trial, in the author's judgment. He was a 

 large dog of the liver-and-white variety described above, but 

 with a little of the body formation of the whole-coloured 

 variety, and a good deal of the dish-face of the lemon-and- 

 white ones. The author remembers this dog's maternal 

 grandsire, Newton's Ranger, a very big animal of great refine- 

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