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again brought to the front. I acted as judge on that occasion, and 

 I put Boss III. back simply because of his want of Clumber ex- 

 pression, or, in other words, because his is not a Clumber's head. 

 In the descriptive particulars of the Clumber Spaniel, in the standard 

 of points and description of the different varieties of Spaniels just 

 published by the Spaniel Club, the head of the Clumber is very 

 fairly handled, and reads as follows : * Large, square, and massive, 

 flat on top, ending in a peak at occiput, round above eyes, with a 

 deep stop ; muzzle heavy and freckled, lips of upper jaw slightly 

 overhung ; skin under eyes dropping, and showing haw.' 



I hope our Spaniel judges in future will go for this class of 

 head, and thus save the expression of this beautiful Spaniel from 

 being something between those of the ordinary Field Spaniel and 

 the Clumber. A friend informed me, after judging of Spaniels at 

 the Birmingham Show of 1886, that the judges, the Rev. A. 

 L. Willet and Major Willet, told him they would no longer 

 recognise the long, Field Spaniel character of Clumber head. 

 This fact, with the description issued by the Spaniel Club, should, 

 and I hope will, destroy the fear I had in 1885 about the head of 

 the Clumber of the future. Two of the best Clumbers now being 

 exhibited are Mr. Holmes's (Lancaster) Tower and Mr. J. A. Parlett's 

 (Edgware Road) Trust. Referring to Trust reminds me of another 

 point in which we have lost ground of late years in our Clumber, 

 and that is colour. Trust certainly has little colour ; nevertheless, 

 what there is is nearly a liver colour a most objectionable colour 

 for a Clumber. Trust is, however, not alone, for very many of the 

 Clumbers now being exhibited are far too dark in the colour of 

 their markings, and judges will do well to make a stand against this. 



The colour of the Clumber is very important, and I regret to 

 see that the Spaniel Club, in describing the colour, have certainly 

 not handled this point so clearly and strongly as I think they ought 

 to have done. 



The Club's description is as follows : ' Plain white, with lemon 

 markings; orange permissible, but not so desirable; slight head 

 markings with white body preferred.' Now, in judging to this 

 description, unless the work is placed in most careful hands, we 

 shall see the colour of our Clumbers gradually become too dark a 

 shade of lemon. I would have added to this description of colour 

 issued by the Spaniel Club the following : ' A decided liver-coloured 

 marking to be a disqualification.'" 



Mr. Farrow's notes, though they appeared nearly fifteen years 

 ago, are of such interest that they are worthy of reproduction 

 to-day, although they have been written from a purely show-ring 

 point of view. 



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