82 The Sporting Dog 



Lyndon to Dr. W. G. Moore. The remarkable 

 prepotency of the Gleam blood is seen in all four 

 of these dogs. The peculiar determination of 

 their bird hunting is different in style from the 

 Count Noble and Gladstone way of going — dif- 

 ferent but not necessarily better — and betrays 

 the Gleam influence. Prince Lyndon, in my 

 judgment, is decidedly the best dog of the four 

 in the most desirable elements of setter quality, 

 though the least meteoric. He has for years been 

 one of my favorites, — ever since I saw him, when 

 just grown, become in a day the king of the ken- 

 nel among thirty dogs he had never seen before. 

 And he was not quarrelsome, only masterful. 

 When this season, after having been used as a 

 shooting dog all his life, he came out, seven years 

 old, and won first place on prairie chicken against 

 an array which included Captain Jack, Alford's 

 John, Lad of Jingo, and Sure Shot, I could not 

 have found more pleasure in the rare feat if he 

 had been mine. For he is a genuine dog. He 

 is of good color, of the right size, strong without 

 coarseness, excellent in bench type, and better 

 than all, of bold, cheerful and independent char- 

 acter. As I write, he is the latest Llewellin celeb- 

 rity, and I doubt whether there has ever been a 

 Llewellin celebrity more satisfying to the disinter- 

 ested sportsman. The setter which has surpassed 

 him in the chicken trials of 1903, McKinley, is a 



