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neither expense nor trouble, to bring to perfection 

 the setter,' and has for over thirty years experi- 

 mented largely in breeding and crossing strains of 

 setters. In due course he succeeded in producing 

 the remarkable family of setters which now bears 

 his name. 



u Mr. Llewellin many years ago kept black and 

 tan setters ; though he did not in those days 

 exhibit. These dogs, however, although he spent 

 much time and pains over their breeding, fell 

 short of the ideal in his mind of the highest type of 

 sportsman's dog, and, having moors in Scotland, and 

 shootings in England and Wales, to test his ideas 

 on, he, rightly or wrongly, was fully persuaded in his 

 own mind that it was hopeless to spend more time 

 over the black and tans ; and, after full considera- 

 tion, he finally discarded them. This conclusion 

 was not come to without long trial and experiment 

 of all the best strains of the day, having, besides the 

 well known sorts, many of a kind not generally 

 known, such as those of Mr. Hall, master of the 

 Holderness, and, above all, those of his intimate 

 friend 'Sixty-one' (the Rev. Hely Hutchinson), 

 which were bred and used long before the days of 

 dog shows for work in the Lews, where ' Sixty-one ' 

 for many years held some 70,000 acres of moors. 

 Mr. Llewellin had his own reasons for discarding 



