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Salter's Chloe, Mr. Egerton's George, and Mr. 

 Hudson's Battle. 



Peggie, the dam of Bachelor, who did a great 

 deal of winning in his day, had a considerable 

 strain of water spaniel blood in her, and so the 

 descendants of that bitch, handsome though she 

 was, cannot be deemed as pure as they might be, 

 still, with slight exception, Bachelor was about as 

 pure as any at that time, and it is from his strain 

 that the various colours which now and then appear 

 are produced. It was rather unfortunate that Mr. 

 Bullock's George, one of the illustrations of the 

 Sussex spaniels published in the Field in 1872, was 

 by his dog Bob, one of the best of the black variety 

 ever benched. So here again are so called Sussex 

 descended from him, and his strain cannot be 

 considered the genuine article. But, as already 

 stated, none are entirely pure, and, so far as I can 

 make out, the dog Laurie, already alluded to, was 

 about as free from black in the strain as any, he 

 being by Hudson's Dash out of his Romp, the latter 

 with a sire and dam pure Rosehill, and Dash was by 

 Mr. Curtiss' Bob Mr. Watt's Dash, both pure in 

 their way. 



I cannot find any others of the best looking and 

 most typical dogs that do not on one side or the 

 other go back to Bachelor. Still with no more wrong 



