CHAPTER VI 



LAVERACKS IN AMERICA 



Purists who love exactitudes say that there are 

 few real Laveracks now living. Two or three 

 investigators have, with a flourish, brought out 

 from obscurity specimens which come down with- 

 out outside cross from the Laverack kennel and, 

 according to the Laverack creed, straight from 

 Ponto and Old Moll. Broadly speaking, all this 

 is an error likely to lead to confusion ; just as an 

 attempt to narrow the definition of Llewellin 

 threatens the same result. Most of the modern 

 bench-show Laveracks have such an overwhelm- 

 ing preponderance of straight Laverack blood 

 and have been so carefully bred for type that it 

 would be an error to call them by any other name. 

 In all truth they are more highly perfected Laver- 

 acks than anything Mr. Laverack himself ever 

 bred. As in the case of the Llewellin, I shall 

 give to such dogs the name to which they are 

 entitled by their type and essential blood lines. 



Even Mr. Laverack's harshest critics, Dr. Walsh 

 (Stonehenge) and Rev. Mr. Pierce (Idstone), ad- 

 mitted that his dogs had high quality, uniformity 



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