The English Setter 115 



have not hitherto seen exploited, though it may possibly have been without 

 our knowledge. 



Mr. Laverack obtained Ponto and Old Moll from the Rev A. Har- 

 rison in 1825. Judging from Mr. Laverack's naming Old Moll, coupled 

 with the name of Mr. Harrison, as one of the best three setters he had 

 known, it would seem fair to assume that he did not get her as a puppy, 

 but probably obtained both as developed shooting dogs, having possibly 

 no thought of what he subsequently went in for in breeding. We will there- 

 fore set the date of their birth at 1823. The peculiarity in the pedigree of 

 Countess is not really so much that all lines trace back to the original brace, 

 but that the links are so few and each brace named has but two descendants, 

 with but two exceptions of one additional each. Boiled down in this man- 

 ner here is the pedigree of Countess: 



Main stem. Spurs — see below. 



(1823) Ponto— Old Moll. 

 »Dash I.— Belle I. 

 Pilot— ^MoU II. 'Cora I. 

 Regent — Jet I. *Rock. 

 Rock II. — Blairs Cora. 

 «Sting — "Belle II. 

 sire of dam of 



(1862) Dash II. Moll III. 



Countess (1869) 



Spurs to the main line: 



^Dash I. ^MoUII. (?i836) 



*Rock Peg 



* V ' 



Rock I. 



> „ ' 



«Belle II. Fred I. (1853) ^Cora I. (? 1836) 



V , : /v , ' 



Moll III. Cora II. =Sting. 



\ ^ / 



Dash II. (1862) 



Countess (1869) 



