CHAPTER XIII. 



THE JAPANESE SPANIEL. 



IN some quarters an impression prevails that the 

 Japanese spaniel is quite a modern introduction. 

 This is, however, not so ; and at one of our very 

 earliest dog shows that held in the Holborn Horse 

 Repository in 1862 a class was provided for 

 Japanese, which at that time were oftener called 

 pugs than spaniels. There were then nine entries ; 

 and Mr. C. Keller, Camberwell, won first prize with 

 a black and white dog called Caro. 



The Japanese themselves claim great antiquity 

 for these little dogs, going so far as to be rivals 

 with the Maltese in that respect, and declaring 

 that our own toy spaniels were originally produced 

 from the Japanese. But, as I have had to say 

 repeatedly, the origins of the varieties of the dog 

 cannot be traced. We have them and so should 

 be contented. 



These little dogs are now called and identified 

 as Japanese spaniels because they are supposed to 



