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is shown by the tail and its carriage, and by the ten- 
dency to head off birds in manner similar to that 
employed in herding sheep. In color the Gordon set- 
ter is supposed to be deep black and tan, though there 
is good proof that the dogs at Gordon Castle were 
black and tan, black, tan and white, and liver and 
white. Laverack, in “The Setter,” wrote of them as 
follows: ‘‘As far as my observation goes, they lack 
the endurance of the other breeds that I have named; 
they are coarser and heavier made, and have not the 
light and agile action of the blacks, the black and 
whites, the black-grays, or blue and lemon and white 
Beltons I have tested. . . . Black-tans, as a rule, have 
sour, coarse heads; shoulders loaded, heavy, and too 
upright; are heavy and thick-limbed; large feet, often 
too straight and tilty in the hind quarters; tail thick 
and ropy. Many of the black-tans have obstinate, stub- 
born tempers, and are not particularly easy to break.” 
The modern pointer is supposed to be a descendant 
of the old Spanish pointer which was introduced into 
England in the early part of the eighteenth century. 
The Spanish pointer was a coarse, slow dog, sadly in- 
efficient in the matter of speed and range, to improve 
which a foxhound cross was introduced. The much 
racier modern type is said to be the result. In the late 
70s and early ’80s of the last century many pointers— 
dogs and bitches—of excellent blood, and fame as 
workers, were imported from England; but, strange to 
relate, only an exceedingly small percentage of their 
offspring proved to be noteworthy as workers afield, 
