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little perplexed to discover. In those days there 

 was a sort of freemasonry among the experts. 

 They seemed to regard it as somewhat non- 

 ethical to speak to outsiders of the faults of 

 prominent dogs. All of them mentioned Rake's 

 field qualities with reservation. Mr. A. C. Wad- 

 dell once told me that he had charge of Rake for 

 a time and that, while the dog had considerable 

 speed and disposition to hunt, there was a lack of 

 nose. Mr. P. T. Madison described the dog to 

 me as having plenty of nose, but not much judg- 

 ment in the use of it ; intimating that he was a 

 difficult dog to make serviceable in the field. He 

 appears in modern pedigrees largely through his 

 daughters out of Bergundthal's Fanny, a daughter 

 of Leicester and Dart, Dart being a sister of Druid. 

 From this source he comes into the modern stock 

 through Major Taylor's famous Lit, Lit's sister, 

 Bopeep, Bryson's Sue, Ruby's Girl, and others. 

 In the direct male line there is not much to per- 

 petuate Rake's erstwhile reputation. In a chapter 

 on breeding I shall refer to an interesting experi- 

 ment by Dr. Stark of Milwaukee, who by inbreed- 

 ing to Rake concentrated a remarkable number 

 of lines of Rhoebe. This experiment did not 

 result successfully and cuts Httle figure among 

 the later Llewellins. 



Going back for a moment to Mr. Llewellin's 

 kennel, there is a name which must be mentioned, 



