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would soon be done would judges, in making their 

 awards, stick to one type and throw out those dogs 

 that showed unusually heavy bone, long bodies, 

 heavy heads, and over-sized ears. And I may go 

 further than this, and say that I never yet saw a 

 good and perfectly characteristic cocker that had a 

 flat coat, was entirely black, or of that bright liver 

 colour found in the Sussex. The correct colours are 

 either mixed or a dull brown, the latter with white on 

 the chest and often enough white feet to match. 



Mr. J. F. Farrow, of Ipswich, owns an excellent 

 strain of small black spaniels, which one or two of 

 his are of the cocker type I approve. Some of them 

 are miniature specimens of the black field spaniel 

 and from which they are bred. Mr. Lawrence, Mr. 

 Phillips, and one or two others, exhibit similar 

 black specimens, but none of them excel those that 

 appear from the Ipswich kennels. 



In weight the cocker ought not to exceed 25lb. at 

 the very most, and bitches of 2olb. or less are 

 the desirable size. As I have already hinted, they 

 should not be so high on the leg, so long in the 

 body, so heavy in the ears, or so heavy in the muzzle 

 as an ordinary field spaniel, and may be taken 

 as sharp, active little creatures, always busy when at 

 work, and specially smart in driving rabbits from a 

 gorse covert or other rough place. 



