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of the case to sportsmen generally. It is hardly 

 necessary to say that the word "pure" is entirely 

 misapplied. There never was and never will be 

 such a thing as a " pure " Llewellin in the true 

 technical sense of the word as it is used in the 

 science of breeding. Nor is there much more to 

 be said in defence of the term " straight-bred " 

 Llewellin. At least the use of the term in the 

 effort to establish a fashion is likely to depreciate 

 the substantial value of the Llewellin blood and 

 to seriously mislead the younger generation of 

 sportsmen. There was once such a thing as a 

 "straight-bred " Laverack, and even now the bench- 

 show Laveracks are much more nearly straight 

 bred than any Llewellin that ever lived. Mr. 

 Llewellin himself never made much attempt at 

 straight breeding. To be sure, he first confined 

 his experiments to the Duke-Rhcebe blood crossed 

 on straight Laveracks, but he introduced Sam 

 and Brewis's Dash II as outcrosses, and in late 

 years added blood which, though similar to that 

 of his original stock, came from totally different 

 lines. Mr. Buckell has said recently that the 

 breeding of Dash II was confused, and that the 

 dog was treated in the Llewellin kennel wholly 

 as an outcross, evidently possessing qualities 

 which did not belong to the blood from which 

 he was said to have come. 



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