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her ears, and slightly ticked. Her skull and 

 muzzle are wonderfully good, though some critics 

 would call them a little too refined. In fact, it is 

 difficult to find serious fault with her anywhere ex- 

 cept on the general ground that she has too much of 

 the " fancy " appearance to suit sportsmen. In jus- 

 tice to her breeder it is proper to say that in this re- 

 spect the impression is made rather by her color, 

 since she possesses more than the average bone 

 and muscle shown by bitches of her size. 



There are two setters of the last-mentioned kind 

 of breeding which are not Laveracks, but prop- 

 erly, perhaps, belong in the same group, espe- 

 cially since both of them received distinguished 

 consideration from Mr. Mortimer, the dean of the 

 American corps of judges. One of these setters, 

 Winner's Victoria, I have never had any hesita- 

 tion in calling the nearest to faultless among dogs 

 of the general Laverack type. She was bred 

 almost a straight Llewellin, but the fact of her 

 appearance merely goes to show the deep influ- 

 ence of the Laverack blood in the Llewellins. 

 She was a blue belton, weighing forty-five pounds, 

 and built on what would be called cobby lines. 

 Her symmetry was little short of perfection. 

 Llewellin judges did not fancy her much on 

 account of her cobbiness. However, it should be 

 said that she probably never was shown in pre- 

 cisely fit condition except twice. Her owner 



