96 The Sporting Dog 



while the plainer but more workmanlike LlewelHn 

 will be in control of public competition on game ; 

 the private owner being, according to his taste, a 

 Laverack fancier or a LlewelHn shooting man. 

 Mr. Thomas has on the largest scale yet at- 

 tempted begun to introduce Laverack blood. It 

 is only justice to say that this fall (1903) he sent 

 a brace of young ones to a prominent Western 

 field trial handler who told me that they had 

 speed and range for the work, with all the 

 Laverack beauty of head and coat. Distemper 

 stopped their training. They were by a Laver- 

 ack sire out of LlewelHn dams. 



Setter type — correct type, true type, old type, 

 are some of the terms used — has misled some 

 judges who have handled principally the fancy 

 stock of various breeds at bench shows and have 

 made no special study of English setters. They 

 think of type only as Laverack. Laveracks, when 

 good, have peerless beauty, but not the old type 

 of Stonehenge. More Llewellins than Laveracks 

 are of thoroughly sound type. Cincinnatus's 

 Pride, essentially LlewelHn in type, though not 

 " straight " in pedigree, is a more soundly typical 

 English setter than any Laverack ever shown in 

 the country. So is Selkirk Dan, the Canadian ; 

 and so is Oakley Hill, barring his head. So is 

 McKinley; so is Sport's Gath ; so is Prince Rod- 

 ney ; so are several other of the fastest and best 

 field trial winners. 



