Laveracks in America 87 



New England they have been highly regarded 

 by many good sportsmen and seemed to make 

 agreeable shooting companions. In the West 

 and South, on the other hand, they have not 

 been favored. 



Of the modern Laveracks, the beautiful dogs 

 shown for several years by Mr. Windholz of New 

 York may be taken as the beginning. In 1889 

 he showed Champion Rockingham, Champion 

 Count Howard, and Champion Cora of Wetheral, 

 and it was a beautiful exhibition. Rockingham 

 was a blue belton of good show points in all 

 respects, as his long list of successes indicates. 

 Count Howard was a much larger dog of the 

 same color. His skull was rather too large and 

 heavy even for his size, and his lip deep to the 

 point of looseness. Mr. Windholz also bred a 

 handsome one in Princess Beatrice. 



About the same time Royal Prince II was 

 shown in competition with the Windholz dogs. 

 He was a more compact and smoothly turned 

 specimen of the blue belton color. In the years 

 following, the Laverack type was conspicuous in 

 Champion Sheldon, Champion Gilhooley, Cham- 

 pion Highland Fleet, all bred on this side, and 

 others w^ell known to fanciers. 



It is likely that Monk of Furness was, taking 

 the country over, used in the stud more than any 

 other of the imported Laveracks. He was almost 



