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Mr. James Farrow, who has paid very close attention to the 

 breed as exhibited in the show-ring, has written the following 

 account : 



"Better specimens of this beautiful and very useful variety of 

 Spaniel existed ten or fifteen years ago than we have to-day. I 

 know of no Clumber Spaniel now being exhibited showing so 

 distinctly the head properties so much valued by Clumber breeders 

 as did Nabob, a Clumber that did a lot of prize winning about 

 the year 1872, exhibited by Mr. P. Bullock, and bred by Mr. 

 Foljambe, a name often found connected with many of our best 

 Clumbers. Beau was another good Clumber, bred by Mr. J. 

 Douglas, of Clumber, and exhibited by Mr. Fletcher. At the 

 Kennel Club Shows in 1874 and 1875 Beau was often placed over 

 Nabob, but, although a good dog, he was certainly not equal to 

 Nabob. Another good Clumber, and a great prize winner a better 

 dog than anything now being exhibited was Trusty, bred by Earl 

 Spencer, and exhibited for years by Mr. H. B. Spurgin, Northampton. 

 About the year 1872 the Rev. T. Marshall exhibited, at several 

 shows held in the East of England, a grand Clumber dog, named 

 Bruce. Very little was seen of this Clumber at exhibitions ; had 

 he been in some hands, however, this dog would have made a 

 name in the Clumber world. Another good Clumber, and bred 

 from some of Mr. Foljambe's dogs, was Rock, bred by Mr. Parlett, 

 who, although not a heavy prize winner, was fairly successful at 

 exhibitions. He was, perhaps, a little short in body, and a little too 

 long on his legs, but a good Clumber nevertheless ; and I have 

 seen him placed over what I take to-day to be the best Clumber 

 now being exhibited I refer to Psycho, a heavy prize winner, and 

 first in the Challenge Class at the Kennel Club's Show in January, 

 1887. 



In 1885 I was very much afraid we were about to lose, or give 

 up, in the head properties of the Clumber, some of our oldest 

 acknowledged points. Boss III., a Clumber bred and exhibited 

 by Mr. J. Allen, Ampthill, was, in 1885, awarded, and by some of 

 our oldest Spaniel judges, first prize in the Challenge Class at both 

 the Kennei Club's winter and summer exhibitions ; and at Warwick, 

 in the Challenge Class, he was placed over Psycho by our old, 

 recognised Spaniel judges, the Rev. A. L. Willet and Major Willet. 

 Now, there is just as much difference between the head of the 

 Clumber and the head of the ordinary Field or Springer Spaniel as 

 there is- between black and white ; and Boss III.'s head is certainly 

 more of the ordinary Field Spaniel type than that of a Clumber, and 

 that simply at once destroys the Clumber expression. 



At the winter show of the Kennel Club in 1886 Boss III. 

 once more met Psycho, and Boss III. was put back and Psycho 



