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account of their intense hunting and ranging 

 disposition. But this difficulty is more on the 

 surface than real, since the dogs in most cases 

 come under discipline quickly when the trainer 

 sets himself seriously to developing their bird 

 work. There are plenty of Llewellins which will 

 weigh sixty pounds and more, and plenty of 

 them which have brains enough to make circus 

 dogs if anybody cared to use them for such a 

 purpose. 



Giving the fixed name " Llewellin " in this 

 country to setters of certain blood has caused a 

 great deal of confusion, though it was a gracious 

 idea in the first place and it is no more than jus- 

 tice to Mr. Llewellin's liberality and labor in the 

 interest of field dogs. The trouble is that a great 

 many people do all their thinking on the assump- 

 tion that whatever strains to Mr. Llewellin's ken- 

 nel represents a concentrated breeding and a 

 definite type. Even a superficial study of the 

 subject shows that either a straight-bred Llewellin 

 is a paradoxical impossibility, or that every Llewel- 

 lin is straight-bred. The cursory student will also 

 find out that only a few dogs of Mr. Llewellin's 

 breeding were successful in helping to create the 

 American favorite. Later importations from his 

 kennel, like Gus Bondhu and Dick Bondhu, were 

 soon discarded, and the influence of some of the 

 earlier dogs, which are painted in glowing colors 



