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breeding program using the offspring of Nous and Belle, sometimes introducing fresh blood. Nous and Belle’s descendants were com- bined with wavy and flat-coated retrievers, another Tweed Water Spaniel, and a red setter. Marjoribanks kept primarily the yellow puppies (and a few blacks) to continue his line. In those early days, breeders placed a lot of importance on a dog’s color. Black was believed to be the best and hardiest and least sus- ceptible to fatigue, hunger, and danger; and brown and yellow dogs were though to be he most alert and best swimmers. American link

When Lord Tweedmouth’s youngest son, Archie Marjoribanks, went to America to run the family ranch in Texas, he took a Golden called Sol with him. There are no records available, but there is a photo taken in the early 1890s of Marjoribanks

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