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narrow and tucked up, should show strength, not only in width but in depth. 
The vertebra instead of protruding so as to leave a line down the back like 
the edge of a saw, should be well clothed on both sides with hard muscle. 
Quarters very light, and showing defects such as.we have never seen over- 
looked by a judge of the breed. Thighs resembling those of a cat, being 
narrow and flat, and from a back view showing none of the beautiful lines 
which always portray speed and power, and which are indispensable in dogs 
which must go and stay. Hocks straight and light; they should be well bent, 
strong and clean. Forelegs not quite straight. Shoulders moderate. 
Feet fairly good. Tail long and curled over the back. Stands low at the 
shoulder in proportion to height at quarters. A small, weedy-looking dog, 
having body and limbs for which there is no standard and probably never © 
will be.” 
The second to this dog was summarised as follows: ‘An undersized, 
slab-sided, light-quartered, ring-tailed and bad-headed specimen, having 
few if any show points. After having examined very carefully this and 
other dogs at this show, we can readily understand why a new standard was 
contemplated.” 
The cause of this perversion of the English setter type is to be traced — 
to the introduction of the Llewellyns, not that the imported dogs were such 
weeds, but that the 1 incompetence of breeders and the complete ignoring of 
. anything like advisability in breeding let loose a flood: of wretchedly built 
dogs, and judges who had knowledge of field trials did not seem able to 
properly place dogs descended from racing progenitors competing with 
true-built dogs of type, when it came to judging points in the show: ring. 
With them the fact that a dog was descended from parents of excellent field 
qualifications was evidently ample reason for placing that dog high in the 
prize list. Their judging was very much on the order of the old game- 
keeper’s who, having been persuaded to don the ermine, took a glance over — 
the candidates till his eye lighted on one that made him at once decide the 
placing by saying, “That looks like our old Bill, give him first.” 
What these “Llewellyns” were has never been lucidly determined, and 
later-day writers and supporters of the title acknowledge that no rule can be 
framed to interpret the name clearly. We all know what a Laverack was— 
a dog from Mr. Laverack’s kennels, or descended from such, without any 
outside blood; but Mr. Llewellyn had no strain at all in his kennel. He had 
dabbled in Irish setters, bought “cracks” of full Laverack blood, such as 
