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The Living Animals of the World 



make lively, affectionate companions and 

 grand assistants at waterfowl-shooting. 



CLUMBER SPANIELS are always a 

 creamy white, with lemon or light tan 

 markings, and are rather slow and de- 

 liberate in their movements, but have a 

 stylish, high-class look about them. 



SUSSEX SPANIELS are also rather heavy 

 in build and of muscular frame, but 

 can do a day's work with most others. 

 They are a rich copper-red in colour, 

 with low short bodies, long feathered 

 ears, full eyes of deep colour, and are 

 very handsome. 



BLACK SPANIELS should be glossy 

 raven-black in colour, with strong 

 muscular bodies on strong short legs, 

 long pendulous ears, and expressive eyes. 

 Good specimens are in high favour, and 

 command long prices. I regret I cannot 

 find room for an illustration of this breed, 

 so deservedly popular. 



COCKERS, which are shorter in the back, higher on the leg, and lighter in weight, being 

 usually under 25 Ibs., are very popular, full of life, and very attractive in appearance. 



BASSET-HOUNDS, both rough- and smooth-coated, are probably the most muscular dogs in 

 existence of their height, with much dignity about them. In the Sporting Teams at the 

 Royal Agricultural Hall there were some thirteen or fifteen teams of all kinds of sporting 

 dogs, and of these a team each of rough and smooth bassets was in the first four. 



DACHSHUNDS are often erroneously treated as Sporting Dogs. There are certainly not 

 so many supporters of the breed as formerly. Their lean heads, with long hanging ears, 

 long low bodies, and crooked fore legs, give them a quaint appearance. The colours 

 are usually shades of chestnut-red or black and tan ; but some are seen chocolate and 

 " dappled," which is one shade of reddish brown, with spots and blotches of a darker shade 

 all over it. 



GREAT DANES, though mostly classed amongst Non-sporting Dogs, have much of the 

 hound in their bearing and appearance. The whole-coloured are not so popular as the various 



BLOOD-HOUND. 



This photograph shows what an almost perfect blood-hound should be like. 



ENGLISH SETTER. 

 A typical but rather coarse specimen of a beautiful variety. 



Pholo by E. landor] [Baling. 



SMOOTH-COATED SAINT BERNARD. 

 The illustration gives a capital idea of these handsome dogs. 



