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indeed, much of their sport is dependent upon this excellent worker. 

 The ground to be worked includes some of the roughest character, 

 with dense cover, which necessitates an active, persevering, strong, 

 high-couraged dog that will face anything. He must also be able 

 to work all day, and day after day. When this Spaniel was brought 

 out at the field trials of the Sporting Spaniel Society, his working 

 qualities immediately placed him in a high position. 



There is also in Wales the smaller-sized red-and-white Spaniel 

 known as the 'Welsh Cocker.'" 



The illustration of the Welsh Springer (Fig. 69) includes two 

 positions of Mr. Williams's Corrin, a dog that has never been beaten 

 in the show-ring since that memorable Birmingham Show (1899) 

 when, amid the hysterical plaints of the showmen and execrations 

 "long and low," classes for working-type Spaniels were initiated. 

 Corrin is also a rare worker, but he was too old at the time of their 

 institution to acquire sufficient polish for the trials. 



THE FIELD SPANIEL 



This variety of the Spaniel, born of the dog shows, has achieved 

 great prominence since their establishment, the principal breeders 

 and exhibitors in the earlier exhibition days having been Mr. 

 Burdett, of Birmingham ; Mr. Jones, of Oscott, near Birmingham ; 

 Mr. Phineas Bullock, of Bilston, Staffordshire ; and Dr. Boulton, 

 of Beverley, in Yorkshire ; and the strains of these gentlemen's 

 kennels have since spread into the hands of a considerable number 

 of exhibitors and others throughout the country. The general 

 appearance is that of a long, low-set dog, legginess being looked 

 on as a great fault. 



Dr. W. W. Boulton, of Beverley, author, conjointly with 

 Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, of a pamphlet on " Breeding for Colour," 

 set himself the task of producing a strain of jet-black Spaniels, in 

 which that colour should be so firmly established as to be always 

 reproduced in the puppies, generation after generation. How well 

 he succeeded is seen in the family of Spaniels recognised as the 

 Beverley strain, which was kept up, after Dr. Boulton ceased to be 

 a breeder, by Mr. A. H. Easten, of Hull, and later by Mr. 

 W. R. Brydon, of Buxton. 



Many of the Beverley and other strains of Black Spaniels 

 furnished both large-sized Field Spaniels and also small Black 

 Cockers ; but the formation of the Field Spaniel by no means 

 gives that activity which should characterise the Cocker. 



Of course this Spaniel, quaintness and sortiness being his 

 principal charms, is at a great disadvantage where the undergrowth 



