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owned, a dog he did not breed, a dog whose ancestors he never owned nor 

 bred, was according to Messrs. Buckell and Llewellyn, a Llewellyn setter. 

 Rock, a field trial winner in England, bred by Mr. Garth, out of Daisy by 

 Field's Bruce, was also a Llewellyn setter, according to Mr. Llewelyln's 

 classification. Helton, the sire of Mr. Sanborn's crack field trial winner 

 Nellie, was monopolised as a Llewellyn, yet he was bred by Mr. Thomas 

 Statter, out of Daisy (not Llewellyn's), by Sykes's Dash, a Laverack setter. 

 Mr.Brewis's celebrated Dash IL, by Mr. Laverack's Blue Prince out of Mr. 

 John Armstrong's Old Kate, is by Mr. Llewellyn claimed as his breed. 

 His excellent brother Dash IIL is also, according to Messrs. Buckell and 

 Llewellyn, a Llewellyn setter; and we might go on at great length and 

 show a long list of dogs, bred by others, from dogs not bred or owned by 

 Mr. Llewellyn, which that gentleman claims as his breed, without a particle 

 of reason. 



"Had Mr. Llewellyn originated the Duke-Rhoebe-Laverack cross 

 he might have some claim on the whole strain, but the cross was made, and 

 its excellence proven before he owned any of them. Nor is Mr. Llewellyn 

 entitled to any special recognition for having continued to breed these 

 dogs exclusively, for they have been bred in England and in this country 

 by others, during the whole time he has been breeding them. 



"Has Mr. Llewellyn done all that it is claimed he has, and are all 

 these dogs, whose performances go to swell the 'Llewellyn record' his dogs .'' 

 Most assuredly not. He has no more right to their record than we have. 

 What Mr. Laverack, Mr. Statter, Mr. Garth, Mr. Armstrong and others 

 have done in England with their dogs, they, and not Mr. Llewellyn, are 

 entitled to credit for. And what Mr. Smith, the Messrs. Bryson, Mr. 

 Adams, Mr. Sanborn, Mr. Bergundthal, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Dew and many 

 others have done in this country, they, and not Mr. Llewellyn, are entitled 

 to credit for." — American Field, January 19, 1884. 



Replying to a Canadian correspondent in the American Field of 

 February 9, 1884, Doctor Rowe writes: "Dominion's assumptions, when 

 brought face to face with facts, furnish striking evidence of the length and 

 breadth of the claims of Mr. Llewellyn and his followers. Every dog that 

 is of any consequence as a field trials performer gets to be a Llewellyn 

 setter. A little investigation through the great mass of 'Llewellyn setter' 

 assumption brings us to a very few commonplace facts." 



When Mr. L. H. Smith, in the columns of the Turf, Field and Farm^ 



