TILE SETTER. Three breeds of setters are recog nized: (1) The English, which is white speckled dispersedly with larger or smaller portions of black, each color standing out from the other well defined and distinct. The English setters are divisible into two main strains, the Laveraeks and the Llewellins. (2) The Gordon setter, which is a rich, glossy plum-black, with deep sienna or dark mahogany-tan markings on lips, cheek, throat, and on feet and legs. (3) The Irish setter, which is uniformly colored a rich golden chestnut. The English setter has an au thentic history as far hack as 1555, when Robert Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, is recorded as using the setter when netting birds. The date of the origin of the Irish is more doubtful, but Gervase _Markham, writing his Art of Fowling in 1621, and dealing with the question of the setter's colors, does not mention it. The Gordon was produced in the kennels of the Duke of Gordon about the year 1820. The setters are
handsome dogs, weighing from 48 to 60 pounds (the bitches S to 10 pounds lighter), with soft, silky hair on the body, fringing longer on the belly and behind the legs, and longer still (the 'feather') on the under part of the tail, which tapers down, however, to a point. The hair may slightly wave, but never curl. In form they are exceedingly artistic and graceful, and in temper obedient and gentle. The head of the setter is peculiar to itself—long and keen, with a good depth from the bridge of the nose to the lower part of the lip. The shoulders should not be so heavy as to interfere with their full and free action, yet the bones should be strong and the legs well muscled. Cat-like feet, well covered with are desirable. The tail, or 'flag,' is one of the most striking features. It should he carried straight out without the least in clination to turn up over the back.