6o The Sporting Dog 



black-tan, by Llewellin's Dan out of the lemon- 

 and-white Laverack, Petrel. He was imported 

 in utero by Mr. Smith of Strathroy, Canada. 

 When a small puppy, he was bought by Mr. 

 P. H. Bryson of Memphis, Tennessee, and at- 

 tained his reputation while in the ownership 

 of Mr. Bryson and his brother, Mr. David Bry- 

 son. Gladstone won on the bench as well as 

 in the field, but it was probably the prestige of 

 the dog as well as the somewhat irregular char- 

 acter of bench-show entries in those days rather 

 than his strict show qualities which gained him 

 the ribbons. He weighed a little more than fifty 

 pounds and stood twenty-two and a half inches at 

 shoulder. In utility points he was a finely built 

 dog, quite thick in the shoulder but with superb 

 chest and perfect feet and legs. He was very 

 strongly made and of exceptional speed and stay- 

 ing power. His head was short, the muzzle was 

 inclined to be " snipey," and the ears were set 

 quite high. These defects of head, as rated by 

 bench-show standards, have been persistent in his 

 descendants, probably because the same faults 

 were more or less inherent in the entire strain as 

 well as in Gladstone himself. Under the old 

 field trial rules in force when Gladstone first 

 appeared in public, he was several times defeated. 

 At that time competition was judged by the 

 number of stanch points made by a dog, and it 



