THE SETTER 
in so brilliant a fashion as to cause the greatest sensation and enthusiasm 
among the spectators. Of her, the English Press said: “The feature of 
the meeting was the running of Lucy Wind’em, and it is some years since 
so brilliant a performer was seen out.’’ The “American Field’* said; 
“ Mr Llewellin’s late win with Lucy Wind’em, which showed head and 
shoulders above anything at the trials, shows that at this late hour he 
has not forgotten how to breed winners.’’ 
Nothing can add to the force of these words. With a breed that, after the 
lapse of such a long period of time, a long course of “line breeding,’’ has yet 
possession of vigour and vitality sufficient to score a brilliant victory over 
opponents of younger and fresher blood, and a breeder who at the eleventh 
hour can put such a setter into the held, the thought arises; “Will any 
of his present opponents at the end of an equal time be able to duplicate 
such performances ?’’ As late as the spring of 1912 he brought out four 
setters, three bitches and a dog, all of one litter, who highly distinguished 
themselves, the dog particularly. The latter, a handsome youngster, 
caused quite a sensation by the splendid style he displayed, and magni- 
ficent nose and game-finding judgment, several, including the president, 
remarking that such a setter had not been seen for twenty years. To be 
able to bring out such a one at the end of forty years is a triumph in 
“line breeding.’’ It is not surprising to learn that a very large sum was 
offered and refused for that young dog. Count Beau. 
Whether the dog popularly known as the Gordon setter should be black 
and tan, or not, has been the subject of controversy without end. It would 
appear, however, that fifty years before 1824 there were black and tan 
setters in England. The old crusted idea, therefore, that the breed 
originated in Scotland in the Duke of Gordon’s kennels is a myth. 
English sportsmen, about the time mentioned, knew nothing of 
Scotland as a country to sport in. All old English sporting writers are 
wholly concerned with English shooting and all that pertains to it, and if 
they thought of Scotland at all it was as an outlandish country, the chief 
features of which were thistles, oatmeal, cakes, and savage caterans — 
and as for sporting there it would be to them, as Paddy said of his own 
country, “ the finest country in the world to live out of.’’ It may there- 
fore be laid down that the Duke of Gordon did not originate the black 
and tan setter. England had them quite independently. As a fact, 
black and tan is not an uncommon colour in many breeds of dogs. The 
old English bloodhound was black and tan, and what was called the 
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