62 The Sporting Dog 



ance, particularly good on prairie chicken and 

 able to hold his own in any company on any 

 game. 



Druid was a good-sized dog and much hand- 

 somer than the average Llewellin. His propor- 

 tions were good and his color very attractive — 

 a finely marked head and heavily ticked body. 

 The shape of his head and the set of his ears 

 were better than those points in Gladstone and 

 other prominent Llewellin dogs. His tail, how- 

 ever, like those of his mother, Dora, and his 

 close relative, Gladstone, curled upward and was 

 carried high. Druid was a dog entirely differ- 

 ent from Count Noble and Gladstone in dis- 

 position. He was by no means a brilliant field 

 performer, but was a good bird dog. He inherited 

 Dora's amiable and tractable disposition, and it is 

 very likely that he exercised valuable influence 

 in modifying the headlong and often reckless 

 tendency of Gladstone blood. Certainly he must 

 be credited with improving the appearance of 

 the Llewellins as bench-show candidates. His 

 daughter, General Shattuc's Dido H, was a 

 bench-show champion of her day, and her son, 

 Cincinnatus, was also a bench-show champion as 

 well as a placed dog in some of the important 

 field trials. Dido was also the dam of the bench 

 champion. Dad Wilson. 



Leicester was imported from Mr. Llewellin's 



