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have been drawn particularly to the Sussex spaniel, 

 and the outcome of that article of his was a mass of 

 information on the subject that was extremely 

 valuable. It was not, however, until much later 

 viz., in 1872 that a class was provided at 

 any of our dog shows, that being at the Crystal 

 Palace, when, I believe, Mr. J. A. Handy offered 

 a special prize for them. The awards, however, did 

 not appear to be satisfactory to those who knew the 

 breed. They said that the leading honour ought to 

 have gone to Mr. J. H. Salter's Chance, who came 

 second to Captain Arbuthnot's Dash, an ordinary 

 field spaniel with none of the true character about 

 him, third to a dog bred from at any rate one 

 black parent, Mr. Bullock's George. However, if 

 the awards were wrong and it was neither the first 

 nor the last time that they have been so Sussex 

 spaniels obtained such a fillip that they have not 

 looked behind them since. 



The pure Rosehill strain was the most fancied, 

 and into Sussex all the " show men," with Mr. 

 Bowers in command, ran to see if they could buy 

 up the plums that remained in the neighbourhood. 

 Some few were found, but the owners knew their 

 value as purely sporting dogs, and were loth to part 

 with them at anything else than " sporting " figures, 

 this word, however, used in quite a different sense 



