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asked to look at these puppies to see at once that 

 they are mongrels, for they bear the bar sinister on 

 their backs, as it were. 



"I would ask Dr. Mills, or any competent judge 

 of type, where this bar sinister is to be seen, even 

 in puppies of a day old? We would not see it in 

 the structure, we could not if we were to examine 

 the internal organs see anything different from 

 pure-bred puppies of a similar age, but we would 

 see it in the coat, in that portion known as the skin 

 and its appendages, in that portion of the frame 

 which is derived from the epiblast. 



"If we were to see them in adult age their bas- 

 tardy would be still more apparent, and I again 

 would ask Dr. Mills which parent they would most 

 resemble. If we take the dam, they would be found 

 with a thick coat, semi-prick ears, and if the sire 

 were wall-eyed it would not unlikely be seen in 

 them, too. As to figure, they would more resemble 

 the wild dog than the pointer. If we compare them 

 with the sire, there would be no hesitation in at 

 once coming to the conclusion that they may take 

 more after him than the dam. What does this 

 teach us? Nothing more than what careful breed- 

 ers and physiologists have remarked for years in all 

 varieties of life, viz., 'from the male parent is main- 

 ly derived the external structure, configuration and 



