WHO'S WHO IN BIRD DOGS 41 



A little history will be first in order, after which 

 the family position of various dogs now in the 

 stud will be more clear in the reader's mind. Be- 

 ginning with the English setters, we will confine 

 ourselves to the Llewellin or field trial setter, in- 

 cluding the Laverack outcrosses, as many good 

 bird dogs have been recruited from the ranks of 

 the latter also. Many of the field trial setters of 

 to-day are half Llewellin and half ''English" as 

 the generic name for a Laverack outcross from 

 the original Llewellin stock is termed by breeders. 

 This does not impair their hunting qualities at 

 all but rather improves their physical stamina and 

 mental makeup. The straight Llewellin stock de- 

 scends from a few dogs originally imported into 

 our country from Mr. Llewellin 's strain of dogs 

 originated by him in England, which strain, the 

 famous Duke-Ehoebe-Laverack cross, showed 

 so many fine field qualities that they became 

 instantly popular here. The blood of these 

 dogs is in nearly all the great field trial dogs 

 that have won stakes here in the past two 

 decades. 



The first famous Llewellins imported here were 

 Gladstone and Count Noble, the latter a son of 

 the great Count "Wind 'em of England. By Count 

 Noble came Ch. Count Gladstone IV, who, to- 



