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note that at the present time a son of this Mr. 

 Boaler namely, Mr. G. Boaler, of Mansfield 

 Woodhouse, Notts, still has Clumber spaniels good 

 enough to show and appear in the prize list, and of 

 the same strain that his father won with thirty years 

 ago. This kennel has been kept up for over fifty 

 years, and it is owing only to the failing health 

 of their owner that they do not appear oftener on 

 the show bench. 



It need scarcely be said, that in the first volume of 

 the Kennel Club Stud Book classifications were 

 given this dog, the entries reaching the excellent 

 number of sixty-five. 



At this period, no doubt, some peculiar decisions 

 were given at our dog shows, where, in many cases, 

 a judge undertook his duty without knowing any- 

 thing at all about the breed upon which he had 

 to adjudicate. Instances were not isolated where 

 he awarded the prizes more to the man than the 

 dog, and so, to his own satisfaction, got out of 

 a difficulty into which his own self-assertion had 

 led him. It is said that on the eve of one of the 

 large shows there was a difficulty in obtaining a 

 judge for Clumber spaniels. The secretary was at 

 his wit's end and did not know what to do, when, 



seeing Mr. , one of the so-called " all-round " 



judges, a happy inspiration occurred. " Eh ! " 



