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Of late years, in addition to the above two 

 varieties, there have been classified the Prince 

 Charles, which are black, tan, and white, and the 

 Rubies, which are entirely red. Although at the 

 present time these are rarer than the original strains, 

 no doubt in a few years they will be equally popular. 

 As a fact, the tri-colours are older than either the 

 black and tans or the orange and whites ; but it is 

 only since the establishment of the Toy Spaniel 

 Club in 1885 that they have obtained the distin- 

 guishing name of Prince Charles. Still, Landseer 

 had immortalised them on his canvases long before, 

 and his "Cavalier's Pets" and the " Lady and 

 Spaniels " convey an excellent idea of the dog of 

 which 1 write. The reds are the rarest and choicest 

 of all the varieties, and although specimens were 

 occasionally cropping up in litters of black and tans, 

 such were not valued by the fancier, and attracted 

 little attention. However, two or three particularly 

 choice specimens were exhibited, and again the Toy 

 Spaniel Club came to the rescue, named them aptly, 

 and obtained them inclusion in the " Kennel Club 

 Stud Book," where they were first classified in 1892. 

 Long before then, special prizes had been given for 

 both tri-colours and Rubies, and at the Kennel Club 

 Show held at the Crystal Palace in 1886, several 

 nice specimens of both varieties were shown by 



