130 The Dog: Book 
Countess and hei sister, and then some: moré winners of Mr. Statter’s breed- 
ing. These he- crossed, not as: anything new ‘or patented. by. him, : but 
merely what many other English breeders were'then doing. . He, however, 
had. the very good fortune to, sell: some of his. dogs to some Americans, who 
at once proceeded to exploit the “ strain,” and, to differentiate them from 
the Laveracks, styled them ‘Llewellyns.’ Now. we. have dogs from that 
breeder’s kennels which were not of the cross between the Statter setters 
and the Laveracks, for Mr. Llewellyn very soon introduced different blood; 
and on the other hand, we have had dogs of this Dan-Laverack. strain, as 
Stonehenge called the cross, which Mr. Llewellyn never saw. That ‘Llewel- 
lyn. enthusiast, Mr. Joseph A. Graham, of St. Louis, in “The Sporting 
Dog,” frankly and, honestly says that it is impossible to give a definition 
that will hold good. He'says the exclusionists’ definition of Duke-Rhoebe 
and ‘Laverack'will not hold good because it shuts out “a large number of the 
most fespected names in Llewellyn pedigrees;” meaning dogs bought. from 
that breeder. with later crosses of Dash II. blood. Then he says that to 
limit. the title to dogs which had come from Mr. Llewellyn’s kennel would 
‘exclude all the Blue Beltons and several others. These exclusionists 
wanted to -keép out the Gleam strain because of his descent from ‘another 
outside cross, that of Sam;.but now they have let down the bars and the 
‘Gleams are:in ‘the inner circle. Finally, Mr. Graham’ says it “would be as 
well to go further and drop the ‘pure’ idea altogether, letting Llewellyn 
blood stand for what it is—an influential but not separate element in English 
setter-breeding.” But he still leaves us puzzling as to what this Llewellyn 
blood is. Is it everything that Mr. Llwellyn bred from all sorts of outside 
sources, and everything that others bred at the same time and in the same 
thé judging Ben Lewis took in his regular class’ winners, Bracken o’Leck 
and Larisdowne Mallwyd Di. There was much discussion in the ring as 
to eligibility, and Mr. Marsh Byers, the judge, finally said as no one could 
give any definition or show any published condition governing the special, 
he could only judge the dogs claimed to be Llewellyns and the class awards 
were followed. We later saw the official judges” record. and there was a 
memorandum “disqualified” against these winners, but by whom made 
