CHAPTER XXV. 



THE NORFOLK SPANIEL. 



I AM somewhat at a loss to know why the 

 ordinary liver and white spaniel came to be dis- 

 tinguished by the Spaniel Club as the Norfolk 

 spaniel (the Club description, appended, says it may 

 be black and white), for surely it is quite as common 

 a commodity in any county in England as it has 

 ever been in that from which it is supposed to have 

 derived its name. Some say it was used there to 

 assist the shooters on the Broads, but a similar dog 

 has from time out of mind been used by shooters in 

 other parts of the country. Personally, I do not 

 consider the liver and white spaniel any particular 

 variety at all, nor that it has ever been indigenous to 

 Norfolk. Devonshire, for instance, has attained a 

 celebrity for hardy spaniels that had to work in the 

 rough country with which the county of lanes 

 abounds, and do their work well. Many of these 

 were liver and white in colour, others black and 

 white. They never came from Norfolk, nor did the 



