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distinction between the two in this country is more in the 

 weight and size than in race, type, or characteristics, although 

 there is a positive distinction with respect to the two latter. 

 Some breeders have been striving to establish a type, having 

 an extremely long body and short legs, but wherein such a 

 type is an advantage in a working dog, the author has 

 never been able to understand. Either the cocker or field 

 spaniel is small enough to go through any kind of cover 

 that game birds are found in, and if the extreme length 

 of body and shortness of leg are to reduce their speed, the 

 breeder has very little knowledge of how a dog's efforts can 

 be controlled and guided by the trainer. 



They are bright, affectionate and neat dogs, very com- 

 panionable and susceptible of a high degree of training, 

 they being very intelligent. Black spaniels have the great- 

 est uniformity in type amongst cockers; other colored cock- 

 ers vary in type to an astonishing degree. 



The Clumber is about the weight of a small or medium 

 sized setter, and works mute. 



