42 THE AMERICAN HUNTING DOG 



gether with Roderigo, Gath's Hope and Gath's 

 Mark, founded a great strain of American field 

 dogs. These were by the happy combination of 

 Gladstone's daughters bred to Count Noble, and 

 established high-class setters once for all in our 

 country, for, look at the long list of great dogs 

 bred from these four. To Roderigo we owe, via 

 Antonio, Jessie Rodfield, Lanark Lad and Tony 

 Boy, to whom in turn we owe a number of great 

 dogs such as Ch. Mohawk II, ''the blazing soul 

 of Roderigo," from whom come the Babblebrooks 

 of to-day. To Count Gladstone IV we owe Ch. 

 Lady's Count Gladstone, Count Danstone, Ch. 

 Sioux and Prime Minister (from whom we get 

 Count Bloodstone and Momoney of to-day). The 

 first two of these dogs are not straight Llewellin, 

 to the purist's point of view, as their dam was 

 Dan's Lady, who has Dash Ill's blood in her, a 

 Laverack dog out of a Laverack dam, making a 

 straight outcross, yet Lady's Count Gladstone 

 gave us Jessie Rodfield 's Count Gladstone and 

 Count Whitestone, and the latter gave us Ch. Pio- 

 neer and Ch. Prince Whitestone. At the same 

 time Count Danstone sired a number of famous 

 dogs now in the stud. Both of them are now 

 classed by all breeders as straight Llewellin, the 

 outcross being so far back. 



