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of Stonehenge : " Before Daisy came out, Mr. Garth had produced a brace 

 of very bad ones at Stafford, in 1867, and it was with considerable prejudice 

 against them that the above celebrated bitches first exhibited their powers, 

 in spite of the high character given them by Mr. Lort, Mr. Withington, and 

 other well-known sportsmen who had shot over them for years. It is Mr. 

 Lort's opinion that Mr. Withington possessed better dogs than even Coun- 

 tess, but it must not be forgotten that private trials are generally more flat- 

 tering than those before the public." All of which goes to show that Stone- 

 henge was a very conservative, unprejudiced writer, and what he says has 

 added value on that account. 



Stonehenge then proceeds to discuss what were the originals of what 

 have come to be called "Llewellyns," and to show what this authority 

 thought of the original title for these dogs we quote the opening paragraph: 

 " I come now to consider the value of Mr. Llewellyn's ' field-trial ' strain, as 

 they are somewhat grandiloquently termed by their * promoters/ or, as I 

 shall call them, the ' Dan-Laveracks,' being all either by Dan out of 

 Laverack bitches, or by a Laverack dog out of a sister to Dan." 



If there were "promoters" in England, there were also promoters in 

 this country, and they made it their business to give the most glowing 

 accounts of the Llewellyns, late " field-trials " strain, so that not only were 

 the American shooting public misled at that time, but nearly every person 

 connected with field dogs since then has been, and is still, of the opinion 

 that they were invincible in England from 1870 as long as Mr. Llewellyn 

 continued to run dogs in the English field trials. Nothing could possibly 

 be further from the truth, and while we could state the facts in our own way 

 and be thoroughly accurate, yet any person who takes that position is still 

 likely to be attacked as prejudiced or untruthful. In preference to that 

 we will quote what Stonehenge wrote from his own knowledge and from 

 the best information, publishing it when and where the facts were well 

 known, that is, in England, and these statements were never called in ques- 

 tion nor were his conclusions. Even there, however, the upholders of the 

 Llewellyns were not as accurate in their statements as they should have 

 been. One of them who wrote over the nom de plume of " Setter" is quoted 

 by Stonehenge as saying: "During the past two years ten of the Laveracks 

 and ten of the Duke-Rhoebe and Laverack cross have been sent to America : 

 the former including Petrel, Pride of the Border, Fairy and Victress; the 

 latter including Rock, Leicester, Rob Roy, Dart and Dora, the same men 



