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fairly distinct type, and his dogs Buckle and Gipping 

 Sam are exceedingly good specimens, and, with Mr. 

 J. Smith's (Coleshill) Nebo, equally handsome, are 

 not so abnormally short on the leg and heavy in 

 body as to prevent them being useful sporting 

 dogs should occasion require them or their strain 

 to become so. 



Mr. T. Marples, Reddish, near Stockport, has 

 lately shown some exceedingly fine black spaniels 

 of the show strain, his Moonstone excelling in length 

 and other modern attributes, and being undoubtedly a 

 very high class dog. Mr. Moreton Thomas, Hather- 

 leigh, N. Devon, has a capital kennel. Mr. R. 

 Pratt, Bradford, Yorks ; Mr. R. Comber, Beverley ; 

 Mr. C. Lawrence, Chesterton, Cambridge ; Mr. 

 R. C. Howarth, Hindley, near Wigan ; Mr. Kitching- 

 man, near York ; Mr. F. E. Schofield, Alnwick ; Mr. 

 H. B. Spurgin, Northampton, and others, have, at 

 one time and another exhibited charming specimens 

 of the black spaniel, which its admirers are not far 

 wrong in calling the most popular spaniel of the 

 day. If high prices make a dog popular no one 

 can deny this opinion, for a hundred pounds and 

 more will be given for a good specimen where an 

 equally good Clumber would not fetch more than 

 half that sum, nor a Sussex or a black and tan 

 either. 



