HISTORICAL NOTES 25 



Llewellins were bred to great field dogs, regard- 

 less of conformation or bench points and, while 

 this was a good thing for quail-shooting dogs all 

 over the country, it should have had no place in a 

 judge's estimate of a dog's worth as a true type of 

 English setter. There has been a lot of argument 

 about the name Llewellin as being unfair, because 

 a lot of dogs under that name have no right to it as 

 not being descended from the first Duke-Rhoebe 

 cross with the Laveracks. This is all beside the 

 mark ; the name Llewellin is very much needed, in 

 describing a division of the Enghsh setters, bred 

 for field trial work and not necessarily conforming 

 to bench-show standards, and if it should be named 

 after any one that man should certainly be Mr. 

 Purcell Llewellin, who established this remark- 

 able strain as a fact in the sporting world. The 

 Gleam dogs, the Whitestones, and a lot of others 

 are not true Llewellins, but this has little to do 

 with the matter. Time and again an outcross of 

 Laverack or other English setter stock has been 

 beneficial in improving the original Llewellin 

 blood, therefore by all means let us have the cross, 

 and yet class the dog as a Llewellin, this being 

 still his principal characteristic. Many of the field 

 trial winners to-day are great little game finders 

 and great setters, but if they are true English set- 



