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origin. Some of the self-coloured pointers of Mr. Arkwright's 

 kennel have been fawn colour, a well-known greyhound shade. 

 It may be that these are throwbacks to the greyhound blood. 

 But that would not be the author's explanation. As observed 

 above, a blend of colour very seldom comes by crossing one 

 colour with another, when both are pure bred and neither have 

 the blend of colour in their ancestry. But a little more often than 

 a blend of colour comes a heritage of the colour of one parent 

 and the markings of the other. So that when Mr. Arkwright 

 has crossed a lemon-and-white with a black, there would be 

 nothing wonderful for an occasional puppy to come with the 

 markings of the black parent, but of the colour of lemon, 

 in this case called fawn, which is the same colour. On the 

 other hand, a blend of colour and markings would require 

 the offspring to be whole-coloured and liver-coloured. That 

 liver colour is occasionally obtained from blending the red or 

 sandy with the black, the author has proved beyond question 

 in his own experience where neither parent inherited the colour, 

 but it seems to require a violent out-cross to give rise to it, for 

 black-and-white and lemon-and-white dogs of the same family 

 may sometimes be bred together for many generations without 

 giving rise to this blend of colour. 



Mr. Pilkington at one time had as good liver-and-white 

 pointers as anyone who was then running dogs in public. His 

 Garnet was very much of a pointer ; and Nicholson, who 

 engineered him to victory, has continued to win at field trials 

 with some of the breed ; and another Salopian keeper who has 

 been a most successful breeder is Mawson, who bred Faskally 

 Bragg and Syke of Bromfield. 



As the sire of Mr. A. T. Williams' Rose of Gerwn, the stud 

 dog Lurgan Loyalty cannot be passed over. Rose was full of 

 vitality and pointer instinct, but far from handsome, and very 

 small. Lurgan himself was a small dog and very well made, 

 but he had rather a terrier - like head. His daughter, 

 Coronation, although long held to be the best pointer on the 

 show bench, was obviously too shelly for hard work, and 

 can only be mentioned here to show that exhibition points 



