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an opposite one in fact, and " fancy figures " might 

 be better. 



For over fifty years Mr. Fuller, at Rosehill Hall, 

 Brightling, near Hastings, had perhaps the leading 

 strain, but, although some of it remains, mostly in 

 the kennels of Mr. Campbell Newington, at Ridge- 

 way, Ticehurst, Sussex, and in those of Mr. Moses 

 Woolland, William-street, Lowndes-square, London, 

 and Mr. J. H. Salter, at Tolleshunt d'Arcy, we fancy 

 none are quite free from a strange cross. 



Mr. Fuller kept his spaniels for the purpose of 

 beating the large woods and plantations in the 

 vicinity of Brightling and Heathfield. He was 

 a good sportsman of the old school, one perhaps 

 better satisfied when killing his eight or ten brace 

 of wild pheasants a day over dogs, than the modern 

 shooter is with more than fifteen times that number 

 of hand-fed birds brought to book by the aid 

 of human beaters. Not that I have any wish to 

 decry the " big days" in covert we all so much 

 enjoy, nor for one moment run down the skill of 

 the man who can kill a score of rocketers without 

 more than tw r o or three misses. 



On the death of Mr. Fuller, which occurred so 

 far back as 1847, Mrs. Fuller allowed Relf, the head 

 keeper, to select two of the best spaniels in the 

 kennel ; the remainder were for a time used by the 



