go The Sporting Dog 



stands as, taken all in all, the best Laverack in 

 America. 



These recent importations have usually the 

 lines of blood represented by Count Howard 

 and Monk of Furness, coming down from Tam 

 o' Shanter. 



A setter of Laverack breeding which deserves 

 special mention is Champion Sue H., a large 

 lemon belton. She won a number of times in 

 the hands of Mr. James Cole of Kansas City as 

 well as after he disposed of her. If she had been 

 better in hocks and pasterns, she would have been 

 hard to beat anywhere. Bred to John Davidson's 

 Llewellin, Donald Bane, she produced, among 

 others, a dog called Ray, and he became the sire 

 of Cole's Lady, a good winner on the bench. 

 Bred to Cincinnatus's Pride, Cole's Lady produced 

 Lady Cole, a white-and-black setter which some 

 judges regard as the most beautiful setter now in 

 this country. Lady Cole always won whenever 

 shown, but has not been at any of the Eastern 

 shows since her debut in the puppy class in New 

 York. Her puppies by Oakley Hill, however, 

 won blue ribbons in the New York show of 1903. 

 While Lady Cole is not a Laverack, she is cer- 

 tainly not a Llewellin, and as she is likely to be 

 an important figure in the breeding records, I 

 mention her among the bench-show setters. She 

 is of medium size, white, with the exception of 



