The English Setter II5 
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—*Moll II. *Cora I. 
Regent—Jet I. ‘Rock. 
Rock II.—Blairs Cora. 
ieee — Belle II. 
sire dam of 
(1862) Dash iL Moll III. - 
Countess (1869) 
Spurs to the main line: 
‘Dash I. ®Moll II. (? 1836) 
4Rock Peg 
ue —_-—__ 
Rock I. 
*Belle II. Fred I. (1853) ’Cora I. (? 1836) 
Moll III. Cora IL. "Sting. 
Dash II. Renae 
Countess (1869) 
