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purposes and for breeding, the specimens most marked with 

 the characteristics peculiar to each kind may be treated as 

 distinct strains of blood, although it may not be known what 

 that blood is. To make the author's position more clear, he 

 would say that if a lemon -and -white and a whole-black 

 pointer came in the same litter they would probably be 

 related in blood, as they certainly would be on paper ; but 

 the blood relationship might be very slight indeed, for one 

 would be, as it is now expressed, a " brother " of some remote 

 black ancestor, and the other a "brother" of some remote 

 lemon-and-white ancestor. But this is not wholly true ; because 

 in breeding together brothers and sisters both of one colour, 

 other colours will very occasionally come in the offspring. 

 The influence of sire and dam is shown to be much less than 

 was previously thought possible, but it is not shown to be absent, 

 in spite of the cell and germ theory. 



It is obvious that, in starting to keep pointers, a prospective 

 breeder must settle on one or other of the three existing types, 

 and it is necessary for such a beginner to know that he may 

 cross them one with the other with great constitutional ad- 

 vantage, without much fear of blending type or blood, pro- 

 vided he selects for type and character by means of colour. 

 For instance, he may cross a black pointer with a lemon-and- 

 white or liver-and-white, and repeat this in every generation, 

 and yet the puppies that come black will be of one type, and 

 those that come lemon-and-white will be of the other. The cases 

 of blending will be very rare indeed, and can easily be discarded. 



The late Joseph Lang, the gun-maker, had a breed of lemon- 

 and-white pointers, from which those of the late Mr. Whitehouse 

 were descended, and that gentleman's Priam and Mr. W. 

 Arkwright's Shamrock, with a space of thirty-five years between 

 them, might have been litter brothers for appearance and work. 

 The latter is the best lemon-and-white pointer seen out in quite 

 recent years, and the former was probably the best of his period. 

 Sir Watkin Williams Wynn has a strain of lemon-and-white 

 pointers in which black-and-white and liver-and-white often 

 come, and in this kennel there is a nearer approach to a blend 



