THE ENGLISH SETTER 



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in head and ears and throat, and has a good coat. It is, however, 

 very deficient in hindquarters, and has a dull, apathetic, soft, un- 

 intelligent air, betokening a want of constitution begotten by the 

 unnatural existence of shows, instead of the natural and invigorating 

 life of the moors and fields. 



Between the Show and the Field Setter there ought of course 

 to be no difference ; on the contrary, the show should help the 

 sportsman to preserve in their fullest perfection the shape, the 

 make, the attributes which are positively necessary for the proper 

 performance of the field duties of his canine assistants. 



Mr. Llewellin has preserved his peculiar blend of Setter blood 



FIG. 59. MR. PURCELL LLEWELLIN'S ENGLISH SETTER COUNTESS. 



during thirty-two years absolutely intact from any outside admixture 

 whatever ; and we can trace back the pedigrees thereof for more 

 than a century. He is therefore the only man living at the present 

 time who can be said to possess a positively pure and unmixed 

 strain of this beautiful dog. 



The illustrations, Figs. 58, 59, and 60, are of great interest ; they 

 serve as an object-lesson of Mr. Llewellin's work. First we have 

 Dan. representing one line of his blood viz. a combination of the 

 Gordon and Southesk strains ; secondly, Countess, a pure Laverack of 

 the Dash and Moll family, and perhaps the most beautiful and the 

 truest-shaped bitch of her day ; thirdly, Countess Bear, by Dan 

 ex Countess. Here we have the result of the combination of these 

 two lines ; this animal, which shows the size of the Dan line and 



