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cars make two or three thousand miles 
without doing anything to them. To 
the total cost of the trip should, per¬ 
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home. The car cost of touring, count¬ 
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running every day, or nearly so, the 
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THE GORDON SETTER 
(Continued from page 494) 
that Dan was more than half Gordon 
or something that was to all intents 
and purposes the same as Gordon. 
Anyhow, it was the Gordon blood 
crossed on the worn-out Laveracks that 
gave the new breed the stamina and 
brains to continue upon their field trial 
careers. 
A careful study of the history of the 
Gordon setter reveals the fact that 
while the Gordon blood was being util¬ 
ized by English breeders and fanciers 
to carry on the field trial game, the 
bench show element which had been 
attracted to the great beauty of the 
Gordon were at work doing everything 
in their power to eradicate these useful 
dogs from the sportsman’s horizon by 
an arbitrary color ruling which has no 
basis in history, tradition or practical 
utility. 
The Gordon setter has also suffered 
severely from a meaningless sort of 
bench show standard. At the time 
that they first began attracting the 
attention of the English breeders the 
purely English dogs were on the de¬ 
cline. Mr. Laverack, who had led the 
field for many years, had inbred his 
dogs so intensely that they were nar¬ 
row-headed, pinched-muzzled and had 
lost both size and stamina, and most of 
them were so nervous that they would 
not stand training. 
When the time arrived for them to 
write the standards for the Gordon 
setter, they simply laid down the dic¬ 
tum that the Gordon setter should be 
heavier all around and broader in skull 
than the English setter. This mean¬ 
ingless definition has gone on down 
through the years without anyone rais¬ 
ing a question to what the size or gen¬ 
eral conformation of the English setter 
must be. 
In fact, there is to-day a class of 
bench-show judges who have no clearer 
conception of what a Gordon setter 
should be other than that he is black- 
and-tan in color, free from white, and 
larger all around than the English 
setter of the show benches, many of 
which are too large and cumbersome to 
be really useful in the field. 
Nearly forty years ago a warning 
was sounded in the columns of Forest 
and Stream by Harry Malcom, an 
ardent Baltimore sportsman, who bred, 
owned and shot over Gordon setters for 
many years. Mr. Malcom knew Gordon 
setter pedigrees and had studied their 
type from every angle. He was of the 
opinion that the correct weight of the 
Gordon was from forty-five to fifty 
pounds. One of his most celebrated 
dogs, Malcom Whip, in hunting condi¬ 
tion weighed a scant forty-five pounds. 
Years ago the present Editor of this 
paper, Dr. Bruette, was interested in 
Gordon setters. He won the field trials 
in England with pointers and later 
brought to this country two great 
Gordons whose names are frequently 
to be met with in sporting journals of 
to-day, Devon Grouse and Devon Mona. 
Devon Mona was undoubtedly the hand¬ 
somest Gordon of her day. She had a 
great reputation as a field dog on the 
Moor, and although she weighed only 
a trifle over forty pounds, her con¬ 
formation was so perfect and her style 
and action so attractive that she had 
no difficulty in winning the highest 
bench show honors. This bitch mated 
to the Malcom dogs laid the foundation 
of the family of the working Gordon 
that Dr. Rowe, the founder of the 
American Field, pronounced the equal 
of the best field trial setters of that 
day. 
As a sportsman’s companion at home 
and in the field the Gordon has no 
superior. They have perfect disposi¬ 
tions, but do not make up with 
strangers as readily as English setters 
or pointers and they will not go off 
hunting with any man that carries a 
gun. They are easily trained but do 
not accustom themselves to a change 
of masters as easily as some of the 
other sporting breeds and it usually 
takes several weeks for them to become 
thoroughly acquainted with strange 
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