THE SETTER. : 14! 
Fearing a bad result, he said that he had at various times crossed 
his bitches with external blood, but always finding a falling off in 
the produce, had gone back to his old stock. Probably, however, 
he occasionally made a slip in his memory, and certainly there 
was a curious admixture of colour in his kennel, if we are to 
believe his account. In other cases of inbreeding, even of much 
less stringency and duration than his, I have always remarked 
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that the colour and markings were almost repeated throughout the 
strain, but Mr. Laverack’s dogs were of all colours with a white 
ground, some being white and red, some white and blue, some 
white and black, and others again white, black, and tan. Latterly 
the blue Belton (a thickly ticked white and black) was the pre- 
vailing colour, but even with these a whole litter never appeared 
