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same way I alwa}M suspect red and white, or black and 

 ■white, in a pointer, for the converse reason. I may here 

 add that I regard the cross of the setter and pointer, com- 

 monly known as the dopper, as an abominable mongrel. 



There is a breed of black and white and tan setters in 

 the United States, known as the " Webster setters," the 

 original stock having been imported by that great states- 

 man, from, I believe, Lord Derby's kennel. It has not 

 generally turned out well, the blood generally showing 

 softness and timidity in the field. To this I have heard 

 of but one exception. I deem the color altogether doubt- 

 ful and suspicious. Still it remains to be said that the 

 old saying of horses stands good of dogs — that good ones 

 are always of good colors, and that there is no absolute 

 rule in these, more than in men, 



" To trace the mind's complexion in the face." 



Before concluding my notice of this dog, I will add 

 that I see lately a much lauded and advertised strain of 

 blood quoted as the " Harewood Setters." Of the merits 

 or alleged origin of these dogs I know nothing. But if 

 they are attributed to the noble Yorkshire family of that 

 title, I fancy there is either some error, or tha.t the strain 

 is very recent. I have known the late and the present 

 Earls of Harewood from my childhood; I lived within six 

 miles of their seat of the same name, and hunted regularly 

 for many seasons with the late Earl's foxhounds ; I can, 

 therefore, assert without the possibility of error, that up to 

 my leaving England they had no distinctive strain of set- 

 ter blood, but often used our Irish strain, of which I have 



