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ment that the tricolour prevailed in the Gordon setters. “An old gentle- 
man sportsman, and one who has shot over the same breed for fifty years 
and knew them ‘during his boyhood, assures me that the late Duke of Gor- 
don, the Marquis: of ‘Anglesey, and . several. other. noblemen had their 
original stock of setters. from the late. Mr. Coke.of Longford, and that the 
colour was usually black, white and tan. Mine are descended from the 
original breed of Mr. Coke; the Gordons Regent and Fan, and within the 
last five years from a black, white and tan bitch which I got direct from 
the Beaudesart kennels. 
“T am aware that there are black-tan setters which are not of the same 
blood as the Gordon breed, and recollect crossing from one more than forty 
years ago that was bred by the late Mr. Edge of Strelly. I also recollect 
a clergyman having a pure breed of black-tans about that period. They 
fetched high prices at Tattersall’s, but were not sold as Gordon setters.” 
“ED” here enters the discussion again, and says that he was born within 
nine miles of Gordon Castle and still resided there, and that in his neigh- 
bourhood “it was as well known that there was a collie strain in some of 
the Duke’s dogs as that there was a strain in Lord Rivers’s greyhounds.” 
Further than that he states specifically: “The duke got a clever colley 
bitch (black and tan) from a farmer’s son in the Streens, on the Findhorn. 
The family are still on the farm, and, if necessary, I can get this statement 
verified. He crossed the bitch with a setter, and next year sent a pup with 
a five-pound note to the farmer’s son. The farmer’s son tried to make a 
sheep dog of the pup, but he was useless.” 
Mr. Adye in a rather discursive reply gives some very good information 
as to some strains from which much of what is called Gordon blood came. 
He is writing regarding a dog called Beau, whose placing at a recent show 
had caused criticism. ‘His pedigree is clear and authentic on all sides for 
some forty years, as he is descended from the two Gordons above alluded to, 
Regent and Fan or Crop [Young Regent and Crop, sold to Lord Chester- 
field at the sale of Gordon setters], and the black, white and tan breed of 
the Marquis of Anglesea, who is well known to have kept his setters for 
sixty years, pure and unmixed. with any other blood. With regard to the 
curl in Beau’s coat, he derives that from the late A. W. Coke’s black, white 
and tan breed, most of which he used to say—at least the best—had the 
curl. Mr. Coke always said the more curly the coat the better the dog. 
The Marquis of Anglesea’s were wavy-coated, with very long silky feather. 
