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dogs were not then popular (1878), excepting among a few who owned 
them, consequently there were not those who, although they ridiculed the 
idea, yet took sufficient interest in the matter to oppose it quickly. The 
title therefor came into use, and we used it and admitted it into our 
columns the same as we did and do many other vulgarisms, as for in- 
stance the term prairie chicken for pinnated grouse.”—American Field, 
April 26, 1884. 
In the article last quoted from, Doctor Rowe said that Messrs. Buckell 
and Llewellyn were speculative breeders, by which he meant that they had 
no staple method, but brought in various outside blood. A correspondent 
replied to this and said that when he visited Mr. Llewellyn’s kennels, in 
1875, the dogs were a mixed lot. To his eyes, there were too many extremes 
in size and quality to show what was being bred for. In 1882 he again visited 
the kennels and found that there was a vast improvement. ‘The dogs were 
larger and more of one definite type. Doctor Rowe twisted his correspond- 
ent’s statements to suit what he had previously written and finishes his 
editorial foot-note to the letter with this sentence: “We know Mr. Llewellyn 
wrote Mr. A. H. Moore that he sent only his culls to America; that doubtless 
accounts for oe evenness of the dogs described and the unevenness of those 
we have seen.’ 
These were the pertinent and never answered statements of the editor 
of the most aggressive kennel journal in the country at that time, and they 
were penned when all the facts regarding the introduction and pedigrees as 
well as the giving the name were thoroughly well known to readers of kennel 
and sportsmen’s papers. Now, at this late date, when so many of the actors 
in the events of that period are no more, and others are on the non-combatant 
list, searchers after truth are misled on every hand and seemingly have no 
option but to believe what was twenty years pilloried as erroneous and 
without foundation in fact. Even the American Field itself, regardless 
of the dictum of its old editor, has switched as the following from its issue 
of January ie 1905, clearly shows: “It will be remembered that a protest 
was made against awarding the special prize of twenty-five dollars, offered 
by Mr. J. A. Graham for the best straightbred [this is incorrect, there was 
nothing as to straightbred in the conditions announced regarding the 
special, simply best Llewellyn setter dog] at the World’s Fair to Bracken 
O’Leck. The matter was referred to the American F ield, and it decided 
that Bracken O’Leck is not a Llewellyn setter, for the very reason that he 
