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the handsome bitches Phantom, Puzzle, Princess, 

 all great show winners. 



" Now, although Mr. Llewellin thus had the best 

 possible opportunities and means of estimating the 

 Laverack breed, he finally came to the conclusion 

 that, however handsome at that time they were, and 

 in the case of Countess, Nellie, and Daisy, good in 

 some respects in the field, yet that, on the average, 

 the pure Laveracks had too many unsatisfactory and 

 inconvenient peculiarities of mind, habit, and instinct, 

 to fit them for attaining his ideal. This discovery 

 set Mr. Llewellin once again on the track of experi- 

 ment, and, this time, with far more satisfaction to 

 himself than anything he had previously experienced. 

 The result was the breed of dogs which bears his 

 name, and which has scored its mark so deeply in 

 setter history. Mr. Teasdale Buckell, the gentle- 

 man who handled so many of his winners at field 

 trials in former years, materially assisted in showing 

 this variety to the world. 



"The particular strain which is known as the 

 ' Llewellin ' setter is, therefore, a blend of the pure 

 Dash Moll and Dash Lill Laverack, with blood 

 represented by Sir Vincent Corbet's Old Slut, and 

 with that of the late Mr. Statter's Rhcebe, as shown 

 chiefly in Dick, Dan, Dora, Daisy, Ruby, &c., but, 

 whilst those for the most part were somewhat coarse, 



