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the difficulty breeders of Clumbers have had to 

 contend with in the matter of judges. More- 

 over, the dog requires very great care in breeding 

 or rearing, which in itself is quite as much as his 

 admirers can put up with, without having additional 

 suffering in the show ring. It has been said that 

 no man ought to judge unless he had seen the 

 breed he was handling at work, and had owned 

 some of them himself. However, this is a question 

 that may be argued ad infinitum, and is as ap- 

 plicable to any dog as much as to the one the name 

 of which appears at the head of this chapter. 



Mr. Wardle, in his illustration, has exceedingly 

 well pourtrayed what a Clumber spaniel should 

 be, and a little description of the two dogs may 

 be interesting. That standing foremost possesses 

 the perfect body of one of the best working dogs, 

 but in the flesh its head is far from what it 

 ought to be, so the artist has replaced it with 

 the head from another dog, which is considered 

 to be about as good as they can be obtained. 

 The bitch behind is almost an exact likeness of the 

 original, improved somewhat to approach that per- 

 fection which no dog has yet been able to reach. 



In colour the body of the dog should be white, 

 the ears coloured, spot on the occiput ; and on the 

 side of the face to the eye there should be lemon 



