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black, white and ticked, with a finely shaped head, 

 but one which would have been heavy even in 

 a dog. She had a big chest and was wide in 

 front. Her speed and range were far below 

 American field trial demands, but she was a most 

 industrious bird hunter, with exquisite nose, and 

 a very agreeable dog to work in close cover. I 

 have some of her descendants now, but her own 

 physical characteristics entirely disappeared with 

 herself. 



John Bolus's Belton was a dog which was the 

 subject of a debate during his lifetime. He was 

 a Llewellin and not a Llewellin, being of blood 

 lines similar to those of the Llewellins but having 

 come from another kennel. He was finally ad- 

 mitted as a straight-bred Llewellin. He was 

 a white-black-tan dog of superior field quality 

 and good looks, somewhat heavier than Glad- 

 stone, but not a large dog. He does not appear 

 in a great many pedigrees, but was an ancestor of 

 dogs like Topsy's Rod, Harwick, Mohawk, and 

 Marie's Sport. 



Before proceeding farther with the Llewellins 

 it might be well to introduce here a mention of 

 the Campbells, a family of short existence in both 

 directions, which received its name because the 

 Messrs. Campbell of Tennessee happened to own 

 the leading specimens at the time when field trials 

 first began. The origin of these dogs seems to 



