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same way I always 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 that 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 
