44 The Sporting Dog 



able Lady's Count Gladstone-Jessie Rodfield 

 family up to this date have been Prince Rodney 

 and Count Whitestone. Count is a delicately 

 marked lemon belton. Prince Rodney is a 

 strongly marked white-black-tan. Unquestion- 

 ably Prince is the more masculine of the two dogs, 

 not only in size and appearance, but in rugged- 

 ness and aggressiveness of character. It does 

 seem as if this example of two brothers had a 

 certain representative value, since a majority of 

 the successful Llewellins of the masculine type 

 have been strongly marked with black and have 

 had conspicuous tan shadings. Yet, on the other 

 side, it is not to be forgotten that Dora, the bitch 

 which introduced so much of the feminine quality 

 that breeders hastened to overcome it, was rough 

 looking and heavily marked with black ; her 

 handsomer son, Druid, having the same amiable 

 and docile "feminine" attributes. History does not 

 seem yet to have proved, though it may suggest, 

 that color is a mark of distinction between what 

 the faddists call the masculine and the feminine 

 types any more than it is a legitimate distinction of 

 the Llewellin strain. However, the amateur must 

 recognize the value of a fashion, whether or not 

 it is founded on facts and reason. White-black- 

 tan is beyond any doubt at present the recog- 

 nized and fashionable color of the Llewellins, 

 notwithstanding the notable successes of orange- 



