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This initial importation into Nova Scotia was supple- 

 mented by many others, the breed having at once risen 

 to the pinnacle of high favor ; and Halifax now undoubt- 

 edly numbers more Clumbers in its canine population 

 than any other city on the continent. 



Later, some exceedingly well-bred Clumbers were im- 

 ported by a gentleman in Ohio, whose name I, for the 



CLUMBER SPANIEL PUPPY QUESTER. 

 Owned by Clumber Kennel ( P. H. F. Mercer), Ottawa, Canada 



moment, do not recollect. Several were bought by parties 

 in Baltimore, Md., and Mr. Jonathan Thorne, Jr., of 

 Pennsylvania, for some years had things all his own way, 

 on the show bench, with his imported dogs, especially 

 Trimbush, whose portrait is given in Pope's series of col- 

 ored lithographs of dogs. 



Within the past seven years a powerful colony has been 



