February, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
57 
A Chesapeake Bay dog in his element 
Lad and Tony Boy; Ch. Count Gladstone 
IV, in addition to Count Danstone noted 
above, produced Lady’s Count Gladstone 
(from whom came Count Whitestone) 
Ch. Sioux, Prime Minister and about 
forty other winners. From Prime Min- 
ister we had Count Bloodstone and 
Momoney, of recent fame; and Tony 
Boy is responsible for Mohawk II, the 
sire of the Babblebrook dogs which fig- 
ure in today’s stud cards and puppy pedi- 
grees. To show how the present dogs 
tie into the Llewellin heirarchy, let us 
run back for three generations the few 
names that we have picked out. Doc 
Whitestone is by Count Whitestone ex. 
Marian Mills II. Momoney II is Mom- 
oney ex. Lady Dorothy; Boaz, Jessie 
Rodfield’s Count Gladstone ex. Dolly 
Manners, a daughter of Tony Boy and 
Ouida F. (Ouida F. is a daughter of 
Gath’s Mark, son of Gath, which brings 
us back to the original English dogs 
of the fifth generation.) Free Lance is 
Mohawk II ex. Lady Freakstone; Master 
Ben, son of Marse Ben, a Gleam dog. 
This latter brings us to an interesting 
phase of the Llewellins, the necessity of 
an occasional outcross of Laverack or 
straight English setter blood to correct 
the evils of imbreeding, for the reader 
has perhaps already noted that the 
Llewellins are one vast family of uncles, 
aunts, and cousins of various degrees. 
Well, the original Gleam was a Laver- 
ack, (Lincoln-Blake) , but the present 
Gleams are mostly Llewellin, Count 
Geam being a son of Lady’s Count Glad- 
stone. In the same way a second out- 
cross of Laverack blood comes in 
through Lady’s Count Gladstone, whose 
dam was Dan’s Lady. This dog has 
Dash Ill’s blood in her (a Laverack 
dog) but it is well diluted, coming 
through Esther, her granddam, the other 
three grandparents being Gladstone, Ch. 
Sue and Gath’s Mark. All the Count 
Whitestone dogs have considerable Lav- 
erack blood in them through Queen 
Stella, and, although these outcrosses 
raised considerable of a tempest in a 
teapot some ten years ago, it unques- 
tionably did the Llewellins a world of 
good. 
Any pup pedigree that ties into the 
family along one or two of the above 
lines in the third generation back will 
be a safe bet to buy for a quail dog, for 
the Llewellins have been bred for the 
last twenty years for fast, keen work 
on quail, and will hunt in wide casts 
along the field borders, and tell you 
whether or not there has been a bevy 
feeding there that morning the while 
you are crossing the field. They do well 
on grouse also for they won all three 
prizes in the grouse stakes of the Penn- 
sylvania field trials in 1916, first being 
won by Lamberton’s Mack (Momoney- 
Susan Howard) . second by Count Glad- 
stone’s Glad (Lady’s Count Gladstone- 
Fairland Ruby) and third being divided 
between Mae Whitestone (Babblebrook 
Joe-Lady Nancy Whitestone) and 
Eugym Mohawk (Eugene M-Wilson’s 
Betty Whitestone). 
On grouse and woodcock, however, I 
would prefer a Laverack setter or a 
pointer. Your quail-bred puppy is apt 
to be fast and wild, running all over the 
lot, while you want a slower and more 
methodical dog, one that will hunt quiet 
and catlike, close up, for grouse shoot- 
ing in the hills. You know pretty well 
where the birds will be at various times 
of the day, and so the dog’s job is to 
point one, so you will be ready for his 
sudden, feathered explosion into the air. 
As a rule, the grouse will not let you 
get within twenty yards of him, and will 
be watching your every move. When 
he sees you all tangled up, or getting- 
over a fence, or looking the other way, 
he makes his jump and is forty yards 
off through the . timber before you can 
collect your wits and plant the tubes on 
him. But, with a dog around, the case 
is different. The grouse is much more 
afraid of him than of you, and he puts 
in his time watching the dog, so that 
you have a chance to circle to a good 
position for a shot if there is a tree 
or a chestnut clump in the way, and then 
move up close to, say, within ten yards 
before he finally jumps. 
To this end the dog should hunt close 
in, wheie he can be easily seen and con- 
trolled, and, as leaves are noisy, the 
quieter he works, the better. The Lav- 
erack dogs, being of recent English ex- 
traction, where their forbears were 
trained on slow methodical work over 
turnip fields and the like, will require 
less breaking to make them work well in 
our grouse hills or woodcock swamps. 
Among the Laveracks it is not so easy 
to pick a pup from pedigree which will 
be a natural hunter, for many of our 
best bench show English setters have had 
but little hunting experience and their 
get is apt to be gunshy and lacking in 
nose and bird sense. I should say that 
the pups by Sir Roger de Coverly II 
would be apt to turn out well, as that 
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