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kennel. He was a lemon-and-white, by Dan out 

 of the Laverack, LIll II. It is said that he was 

 not trained for the field to any great extent, 

 although shot over some. He was a beautifully 

 formed dog, and, perhaps, the fastest of his day 

 as a mere matter of speed. He had, however, a 

 nervous disposition and apparently was easily 

 rattled, though not much was ever said about his 

 actual field quality. He was chiefly famous on 

 account of the success of his daughters when bred 

 to Druid, Rake, Gladstone, and other well-known 

 sires. His brother Lincoln was, judging from 

 the annals of those days, a much better dog than 

 Leicester. He was also lemon-and-white, stylish 

 in the field, and rated as a first-class bird dog. 

 His influence on American pedigrees comes 

 chiefly through his son, Gleam, a dog which in- 

 herited most of his characteristics and probably 

 some additional qualities from the beautiful 

 Countess Bear, another lemon-and-white, the 

 dam of Blaze, Gleam's mother. Gleam was a 

 very large, rough, orange-and-white of great 

 field quality. He comes into modern pedigrees 

 through his daughters, Daisy F. and Georgia 

 Belle. The former, herself half Llewellin and 

 half Campbell, was the dam of Daisy Hope and 

 Daisy Hunter; and Georgia Belle produced the 

 phenomenal litter which included Gleam's Sport, 

 Gleam's Pink, Maiden Mine, and Spot Cash, all 



