288 Modern Dogs. 



Mr. R. T. Linton, Mrs. Beavan, and Mrs. H. E. 

 Jenkins. In November, the year previous, the first 

 exhibition of the Toy Spaniel Club took place at the 

 Westminster Aquarium, where there were eighty-four 

 entries, and classes for King Charles, Blenheims, 

 Prince Charles, Rubies, and " Toy Spaniels," were 

 included in the schedule. The latter was for speci- 

 mens not more than ylb. in weight, and the first 

 prize was won by the red Ruby Princess, second 

 by Mr. Lindsay Hogg's Japanese Ching Mhow. 



As all these English toy spaniels are made so 

 much on the same lines, and, in a certain degree, 

 inter-bred with each other, it is not my intention to 

 separate them under different heads any more than 

 I have already done. I may remark that of the 

 four varieties the Blenheim appears to be the most 

 active ; some I have known recently were not at 

 all adverse to having a scamper after a rabbit, and 

 no doubt had such been brought up in the country 

 would have taken as kindly to the gun and the covert 

 as a terrier or a cocker. Mr. W. C. Bennett, of 

 Dublin, the solicitor to the Irish Canine Society, 

 tells me that Mrs. Bennett has a Blenheim which 

 is quite useful amongst the rabbits. 



In my early days there were at least two persons 

 in the north of England who kept King Charles 

 spaniels, black and tans, with shortish faces and with 



