64 The Sporting Dog 



of which were field trial performers of unsur- 

 passed natural quality. Gleam's Sport became 

 the sire of Marie's Sport; Gleam's Pink sired 

 Pink's Boy ; Spot Cash sired Spot's Girl ; and 

 Maiden Mine became the dam of some good 

 performers. Naturally the lemon-and-white color 

 appears often in the Gleam line. Marse Ben, 

 white-black-tan, is a dog also likely to perpetuate 

 the Gleam blood, which comes to him through 

 Almo, brother of Georgia Belle, and through 

 Mecca, she by Gleam out of Tuberose. 



Bergundthal's Rake is a name which figures in 

 the early generations of a great majority of the 

 American Llewellin pedigrees. At one time he 

 was widely discussed on account of the large 

 amount of Rhoebe blood which he carried. He 

 came from Mr. Llewellin's kennel and was by 

 Dan, son of Rhoebe, out of Ruby, daughter of 

 Rhoebe. Ruby's sire was the Laverack Fred. 

 Rake's blood was believed by many authorities 

 to be extremely valuable and suitable for per- 

 petuation as the proper cross for dogs having a 

 preponderance of Laverack blood. Individually 

 he was not an attractive dog in any respect ex- 

 cept that he was large and powerful, with par- 

 ticularly strong bone. He was white-black-tan, 

 nearly all black, rough, and coarse-looking, and 

 without any of the fancy bench-show points. 

 Just what his field qualities were I have been a 



