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fairly compare in that respect with the best dogs in England. 

 Besides the selection already referred to, what helps to keep up 

 this in-bred race as workers, whereas it died out in England, is 

 the number that are bred in the States and Canada. There 

 are many thousands there ; probably in England there are not 

 more than two or three besides importations from America and 

 their descendants. It should be stated, to make this clear, that 

 the setters run of late by Mr. Llewellin at field trials have 

 been cross-breds, and would not be registered in The American 

 Field Stud Book as " Llewellin setters." The following are 

 referred to as cross-breds: Border Brenda, Count Gleam, 

 Kitty Wind'em, Border Beauty, Orange Bloom, Pixie of the 

 Fells, Countess Brenda, Countess Carrie, Miss Mabel, Countess 

 Nellie, Puck of the Fells, and Countess Shield. That is to say, 

 all the dogs run by Mr. Llewellin at field trials in the years 

 1903, 1904, and 1905. 



Others who have the blood in this crossed form are Colonel 

 C. J. Cotes of Pitchford and Captain H. Heywood Lonsdale 

 of Shavington, near Market Drayton. The latter has some 

 American-bred straight-breds, but reference is here made to their 

 old and well-known field trial strains. Each of these kennels 

 obtained a large draft of the pure bred sort in the early eighties, 

 or late seventies, and introduced it widely into their own breeds. 

 These were formerly founded on Lord Waterpark's breed, and 

 his were crossed very much with Armstrong's Duke already 

 referred to, so that the crossing of the two strains had the 

 double benefit of out-crossing generally, and yet in-breeding to 

 one particular dog, and that one as valuable in a pedigree as 

 Duke. Some years ago, for an article in Country Life, the 

 author tabulated the pedigree of Captain Lonsdale's Ightfield 

 Gaby, and found that he had eight distinct crosses of Duke, and 

 as he was then by far the best setter in England, it was only 

 history repeating itself in the matter of the most successful 

 blood. 



Thus the American straight -bred, as has been shown, was 

 obtained by crossing three unrelated breeds of setters together. 

 Unrelated setters cannot now be found without going to the 

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