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unbeaten record. At that time Mr. Jacobs sold a bunch of his dogs for 

 ^7,500 and retired from breeding and exhibiting. 



It would be quite incorrect to assume that no others during this period 

 had any good spaniels. Far from it, but we have given the condensed 

 record of what was accomplished at Newton Abbot, almost as much by 

 way of showing what one man can do when he hits the right idea and 

 carries it out. Besides Mr. Jacobs there were, at the time he first 

 became prominent, Mr. Spurgin, Mr. Easton, Mr. Bowers and several 

 others. Mr. Schofield also had the Bachelor cross, and was very success- 

 ful with Salus, and from her came Solus, a beautiful black dog shown 

 most successfully by Mr. Royle, of Manchester, who kept a mixed ken- 

 nel of only high-class dogs. Mr. Marples, now of Manchester, was a later 

 exhibitor, and after showing Midnight and a few others, finally got a really 

 good one in Moonstone. Then came Mr. Woolland, Captain Thomas, 

 Mr. Robert Chapman and others of a more modern period, all showing 

 and breeding good dogs. 



Prone as Americans are to note anything new and striking in the 

 English kennel world, it was to be expected that the very remarkable 

 success of the Bachelor litters from Negress and Smutty would have its 

 result here, and such proved to be the case. Mr. A. H. Moore, then the 

 leading exhibitor in this country, imported one of the Smutty litter, shown 

 here as Dash, which later on passed into the possession of the Hornell 

 Spaniel Club. To our own kennel we imported Benedict, from the second 

 Negress litter, and Mr. Kirk, of Toronto, got Toronto Beau, from the 

 Kaffir-Squaw litter of 1880. Just to show that type was then by no means 

 established, we got at the same time with Benedict a cocker spaniel shown 

 as Beatrice, who was by Mr. Jacobs's first field spaniel Nigger. But that 

 was nothing out of the way, for, if one looks through the old American 

 Kennel Register containing the records of the early importations, it is easy 

 to see that there was little reliance to be placed on the dogs of that time, 

 for we had as many cockers from Brush as we did spaniels over twenty- 

 eight pounds. A great many dogs tracing to the Bullock and Burdette 

 strains were cockers close to the limit of weight, and some well under. 



Another early importation was Success, a dog owned by Mr. J. H. 

 Winslow, now of Philadelphia. This was a Schofield dog, being by Bach- 

 elor out of Salus, and a winner of third at the Crystal Palace. Success 

 unfortunately had a bad front, and when he met Benedict it was that 



