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the leg; a Spaniel can nofr be too high-couraged." Thus 

 we see that extremely short, heavy limbs are no modern 

 innovation, as some claim. I am inclined to think, how- 

 ever, that if the good and reverend old gentleman lived in 

 our day, he would be inclined to cry: ' ' Halt! You have got 

 them short enough in the leg, and heavy enough in bone, 

 and too many of your prize-winners are too crooked and 

 clumsy for any sporting purpose. " And he would be right. 

 The modern tendency is to breed them too heavy in bone 

 and body, and consequently too heavy and unwieldy for 

 use. I refer, of course, to the English prize-winners, 

 because, on this side of the Atlantic, few indeed of this 

 type have been seen.* Our Spaniels, as seen on the show 

 benches, are generally absurdly wrong in the opposite 

 direction. A leggy Spaniel is an abomination, but we 

 must come to a clear comprehension as to the line to be 

 drawn between 4 ' long legs ' ' and ' 4 no legs. ' ' Now, a short- 

 legged dog, which every Spaniel should be, does not mean 

 of necessity a crawling thing that requires to be helped 

 over every obstacle a foot or two high. I have seen a 

 Sussex Spaniel bitch, measuring only fifteen inches full 

 height at shoulder, and forty inches from tip of nose to 



* The following list includes most of the prominent breeders and owners 

 of Field Spaniels in this country: A. C. Wilmerding, 163 Broadway, New 

 York City; J. P. Willey, Salmon Falls, N. H. ; George W. Folsom, 826 Con- 

 necticut avenue, Farragut Square, Washington, D. C.; R. P. Keasby, 6 

 Saybrook place, Newark, N. J.; D. S. Hammond, Murray Hill Hotel, Forty- 

 first and Park avenue, New York City; Charles T. Carnell, 190 Washington 

 street, New York City; R. H. Eggleston, 36 East Forty-second street, New 

 York City; T. L. Jacques, 217 West Fourteenth street, New York City; A. 

 Laidlaw, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada; W. T. Payne, 31 West Thirty-eighth 

 ^treet, New York City; W. M. McBurnie, 307 West Fifty-first street, New 

 York City; George H. Bush, 220 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. ; Nahmke Ken- 

 nels, East Patchogue, Long Island, N. Y.; Alexander Pope, 120 Tremont 

 street, Boston, Mass.; Hornell-Harmony Kennels, Hornellsville, N. Y.; Joe 

 Lewis, Cannonsburgh, Penn. ; Woodland Kennels, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada; 

 High Rock Cocker Kennels, Lynn, Mass. ; O. B. Gilman, 40 Boylston street, 

 Boston, Mass.; B. F. Lewis, Philadelphia, Penn.; L. F. Whitman, 418 

 Wabash avenue, Chicago; Woodstock Spaniel Kennels, Woodstock, Ontario, 

 Canada; W. A. Pinkerton, 191 Fifth avenue, Chicago; Dr. J. S. Niven, Lon- 

 don, Ontario, Canada. ED. 



