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rate nose and the other was said to be somewhat 

 addicted to false pointing. Both were alluded to in 

 the reports of the trials where they competed as 

 faults, which Mr. J. H. Walsh considered to arise 

 from in-breeding. 



Allusion must be made to Mr. Llewellin's Dan, 

 Novel, Bondhu, Dash III., Count Wind'em ; Mr. 

 Field's Bruce, and Lord Downe's Sam, who also 

 went into the Llewellin kennels ; Armstrong's Old 

 Kate was extremely useful as a brood bitch to that 

 family of skilled dog trainers ; to Mr. S. E. Shirley's 

 Rock, who, when tried, and subsequently perhaps, 

 won more bench prizes than any other setter; to 

 Mr. Barclay Field's Duke, a great field trial winner 

 in 1866 and 1867; to Mr. T. B. Bowers' Frank, 

 the handsomest orange and white setter of that 

 time; to Mr. Armstrong's Dash, sold to Mr. Brewis. 

 Mr. G. Lowes's Tarn o' Shanter ; Mr. Cunnington's 

 Sir Alister; and many other celebrities in their day 

 might likewise be mentioned. 



Some of these improved Laveracks are not now 

 so successful at the field trial meetings as they 

 ought to be ; but whether this arises rather from 

 the lack of opportunity or from other causes it 

 is difficult to say. As a fact, those persons who 

 own the handsome dogs, mostly of the Laverack 

 strain, that win on the show bench, do not, as 



