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pure brown parents, her sire being Prince Rupert, 

 dam Pearl. Rupert was a well known good dog on 

 the bench, winning, like her daughter, even when 

 pitted against the black variety, and it is rather odd 

 that his sire, King Koffee, black, usually had a brown 

 puppy in each litter when mated with Pearl. From 

 this cross Mr. Salter is desirous of obtaining a 

 distinctly brown strain, which he considers more 

 useful for his description of wildfowl and snipe 

 shooting. Rupert, though over ten years of age, is 

 still alive and able to undergo a day's hard work in 

 the Essex marshes, will plunge into the water in the 

 coldest weather, go into the sea under any conditions, 

 and retrieve a jack snipe as tenderly as a cat would 

 carry her kitten. This is no doubt a useful sort of 

 dog to have. The strain should be perpetuated if 

 possible, and it is much to be regretted that 

 Beauty's owner was unable to obtain any puppies 

 from her. 



There is supposed to be a Norfolk retriever, but 

 this is no special strain, being black, brown, black 

 and tan, or any other colour; an undoubted cross 

 between an ordinary field spaniel and some other 

 retriever. Such cross-bred dogs are useful on the 

 " Broads " when the shooting season is on, and, 

 being hardy, are, when trained, perhaps better 

 adapted for wildfowl shooting than the more 



