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highly, chiefly on account of the breeding of 

 her dam, Psyche, the latter having come of a 

 well-known and highly esteemed strain of setters, 

 the Beaudesarts, which had been for the most 

 part black in color. Rhoebe, however, had quali- 

 ties of some sort which made her a most suc- 

 cessful matron. Her sons and daughters were 

 winners for several years at the trials. 



Mr. Llewellin bought the Laveracks, Countess 

 and Nellie, and the Duke-Rhoebe dogs, Dan and 

 Dick. Dan became the progenitor of nearly all 

 the first-class American field trial dogs. His 

 sister, Dora, was imported into this country by 

 Mr. Adams of Boston and left an important line 

 of descendants, the most favored and famous of 

 which was Druid, imported ahead of Dora and 

 owned by Mr. Arnold Burges of Michigan. 

 Another son was Drake, owned by Mr. Adams. 



A dog whose name is of consequence chiefly 

 because it appears in a great number of pedi- 

 grees was Bergundthal's Rake. He was inbred to 

 Rhoebe. With Gladstone, Count Noble, Leices- 

 ter, and Lincoln, these dogs. Rake and Druid, 

 enter into the pedigrees of nearly all the fashion- 

 able Llewellin families in America. The six are 

 the foundation dogs of the American Llewellin. 

 If the student is after essential influences and 

 simplest terms, he can throw out all other 

 Llewellin importations as minor incidents. 



