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penalise any animal professing to be a 

 Cocker Spaniel who looks as if he would 

 turn the scale at much more than 25 lb. 



It is not easy to find authentic pedigrees 

 going back further than a quarter of a 

 century, but Mr. C. A. Phillips can trace 

 his own strain back to i860, and Mr. James 

 Farrow was exhibiting successfully nearly 

 thirty-five years ago. The former gentle- 

 man published the pedigree of his bitch 

 Rivington Dora for eighteen generations 

 in extcnso in " The Sporting Spaniel " ; 

 while the famous Obo strain of the latter 

 may be said to have exercised more influ- 

 ence than any other on the black variety 

 both in this country and in the United 

 States. 



Going back to the earliest show days, 

 we come across two names which will be 



Spaniels with the old-fashioned Cockers — 

 a fact I have dwelt upon in the section 

 devoted to that variety. Consequently, 

 many of the smaller dogs and bitches of 

 the litters were shown in the light-weight 

 classes, as, for instance, Captain Arbuth- 

 not's Chloe and Alice, who were by Mr. 

 Phineas Bullock's Bob out of his Nellie, 

 who won at Manchester and Nottingham 

 in 1873, and much of this blood is to be 

 found in the Cocker pedigrees of to-day. 



Another example of how the Field Spaniel 

 and Cocker blood comes from this source 

 is shown by the bitch Runic, who was 

 bred and exhibited as under 25 lb. by 

 Mr. W. W. Boulton, of Beverley. This 

 bitch was the dam of Rolf, one of the prin- 

 cipal progenitors, as I have already shown, 

 of the modern race of Field Spaniels. In 



MR. O. W. H. ELLIS'S COLOURED COCKER NURSCOMBE DEBORAH 

 BY LOSTOCK LOZENGE GROVESIDE DOWAGER. 



found in many, if not in most, of the pedi- 

 grees of those Cockers which have been 

 included in the later stud books, those of 

 Mr. Burdett's black and tan dog Frank, 

 and Mr. Mousley's black and white bitch 

 Venus. It must be borne in mind that 

 about this time the modern Field Spaniel 

 was being evolved by Mr. Burdett, Mr. 

 Bullock, and others by crossing Sussex 



1904 Mr. Phillips took the trouble to trace 

 back the pedigrees of some of the principal 

 winning Spaniels at Cruft's show, and 

 found that the champion Cocker, the 

 champion Black Spaniel dog, and the 

 champion coloured Field Spaniel bitch, 

 were all lineal descendants of Frank and 

 Venus. This portion of the history of the 

 breed is most interesting, but unfortunately 



