English Setter Questions 43 



the Interstate Association in 1901 brought out 

 a card of high-class pointers and setters, most 

 of the setters being white-black-tan. Yet the 

 three placed dogs were lemon-and-white setters 

 of Llewellin ancestry. They were Sport's Boy, 

 winner and champion, Ortiz Lad and Count 

 Whitestone. This was in 190 1. In 1902 one 

 of the most successful dogs in the state trials 

 during the autumn was Rodfield's Pride (Cow- 

 ley's), another orange-and-white Llewellin. Pin 

 Money, a frequent winner for many seasons for 

 the Charlottesville kennel, was a blue belton, and 

 her sister. Belle of Hard Bargain, was orange-and- 

 white. Of course, an ancestress of these two 

 bitches, Daisy Hunter, was not a straight-bred 

 Llewellin, but the blood of the Llewellins so pre- 

 ponderated in their pedigree that the color of 

 Belle of Hard Bargain is quite as likely to have 

 been drawn from the Llewellin side as from the 

 other. 



Mr. Buckell holds that the belton color, either 

 blue or orange, is indicative of what he calls the 

 feminine side of the Llewellin, while the larger 

 area of black patches and spots with or without 

 tan indicates the more rugged, aggressive, and 

 masculine type. This would seem to be specula- 

 tion, and yet all of us must admit that in expe- 

 rience it seems to have some foundation. For 

 example, the most admired dogs in the remark- 



