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Poor success in breeding killed off the Ottawa kennels, and another 

 year or two of poor entries ensued before Mr. Little once more made another 

 of his dashes into the breed, and at the same time Mr. George R. Preston 

 took Clumbers up in a way that promised much good for the breed. At 

 New York, in 1895, they made up a total entry of ten, without any duplicates, 

 and in this lot were such good ones as Friar Boss and Glenwood Greeting 

 each of the exhibitors scoring a first in the two classes provided for the breed. 

 In the following yea'r Mr. Preston had the field to himself at New York and 

 won all four prizes in the two classes, his best being Major Gilfeather and 

 Glenwood Greeting. Mr. Preston had been much annoyed by some law 

 proceedings for over a year in connection with some of his dogs, and the 

 unpleasantness was such that he disposed of his entire kennel of Clumbers to 

 Mr. Henry Jarrett, who with another useful addition of his own put down 

 an excellent team of four at the New York show of 1897, with which he not 

 only took all the Clumber class prizes, but also the special for the best four 

 spaniels, other than cockers and this under Mr. George Raper. Mr. 

 Jarrett then sold them all for a good price, and once more the breed was a 

 blank for another year or so. It was not until 1901 that there was any 

 apparent revival of interest, and competition became somewhat diversified 

 but still scant. Miss Douglas, who had been an occasional exhibitor for 

 a few years, still made her customary entry at New York, and in the fall of 

 that year we had two new competitors in Mrs. Robert Stride and the Nor- 

 wood Kennels of Chestnut Hill, that being the name under which Mr. D. 

 Murray Bohlen shows his dogs. How much good the accession of these 

 two exhibitors did the breed is shown by the total list of winners of 1903 

 jumping up to twenty from the usual five or six at which it had been standing. 

 Colonel Stride was now showing the dogs from the Agawam Kennels, and 

 he exhibited six winners that year, while Mr. Bohlen had eight with the 

 prefix of Norwood, and Maggie of Eaton Park, a very good bitch brought 

 over by Mr. Tilley and sold to Mr. Bohlen after she had won at New York 

 from Norwood Harmony. The getting together of the Norwood Kennels 

 team had its usual effect however, for when others could not beat them com- 

 petition fell off, and at New York last year only two opposition entries of 

 one dog each were made out of a total of thirteen entries, and this year, 

 1905, the entire entry of ten was made by the Norwood Kennels. 



This is not a very encouraging state of affairs, and the outlook is no 

 better, for the breed seems to be even more of a fancy one with us than the 



