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red and fawn, it will follow that the brindle is only a consequence 

 of such crossing. Let any breeder look over his book, and 

 consider whether he has not sometimes had a brindled puppy 

 thrown by one of his bitches, in which there was no cross of that 

 colour as far as his knowledge of her pedigree went, nor in that 

 of the sire. But in such a case it will, I believe, invariably happen 

 that the sire and dam were of opposite colours, either in them- 

 selves or in their families ; but generally in the individuals as well 

 as in their predecessors. Indeed, wherever either in sire or dam 

 the breed has been confined to one colour for many generations, 

 the produce will almost invariably follow that colour, unless it 

 so happens that the other parent is also bred to some particular 

 colour, which is not often the case. This is well shown in the 

 cases of ' Foremost,' 4 King Cob,' and ' Jason.' In the progeni- 

 tors of the first of these, there has been no mixture with the 

 black except white, and the consequence has been that he has 

 got scarcely any stock but of his own colour. In ( King Cob,' 

 on the contrary, there was a mixture of white, brindled, and fawn, 

 and consequently his stock have been of various colours, with a 

 tendency to white. Again, in ' Jason,' the colours of his ancestors 

 have been confined to red, blue, and black ; the result of which 

 has been that almost all his stock have been black-muzzled reds 

 or fawns, and with very little white. Lastly, in ( Figaro ' and 

 ' Sam,' though both black themselves or nearly so, the stock have 

 generally followed the dam's colour, because in both cases there 

 was a mixture of colours in the stock from which the sires and 

 dams of these dogs were descended. Now these facts being 



