436 THE BOOK OF THE DOG. 



NEGATIVE POINTS. 



Light-coloured eyes or nose, or showing the hair ... ... ... ... 10 



Ears with curly feather ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 



Curly coat ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 



Carriage of stern ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 20 



A top-knot or any other colour or markings but golden-liver, with or without a 



white frill ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 50 



Total negative points ... ... ... ... ... ... 100 



"The subject of your illustration, Romp, winner of first prize Crystal Palace, 1880, is 

 by Mr. S. W. Marchant's old Rover (the sire of Buckingham and Maude) out of Flirt, by 

 a Rosehill dog out of my champion Bustle. Marchant's Rover was by Sir "P. Micklethwaite's 

 Dash out of Mr. Weston's Fanny, by Mr. S. W. Marchant's Rover II. out of his Duchess II." 



Mr. A. W. Langdale writes : 



" There is a notion in Sussex, especially round Brighton, that liver-and-white is the 

 orthodox Sussex Spaniel colour; but such an idea is ridiculed when we get further into the 

 county. Old specimens are very bad to see, and worse to obtain. I have rambled all over 

 Sussex and Kent in search of a bond fide specimen, and although I have been favoured 

 with a view, have never yet been able to obtain one, and call it all my own. Of the use of 

 the dog there is no doubt. He is a noisy, babbling sort, that will rouse a cock from the 

 densest covert; and so natural does this babbling seem to the breed, that even when out at 

 exercise if one gets off the high road into a meadow, that same moment, no matter how young, 

 down go their heads, and out comes the music. The breed, since Sussex classes have been 

 established, has brought out a number of different types, such as Bullock's George, Langdale's 

 Lawyer, Sailer's Chance, Spurgin's Bebb, and Pratt's General Prim, to say nothing of Max, 

 Sweep, Rover III., Buckingham, Lady's-maid, Maude, &c. Now, of these, George, Chance, 

 Lawyer, General Prim, Rover III , and Bebb, are as different in their respective points as it 

 is possible to conceive. Buckingham (late Mat) is c?lleJ pure, and claims his descent 

 from Rosehill, the place, of all others, where this particular breed of Spaniel is worshipped. 

 Taking him for a pure specimen, we cannot for one moment believe that Bebb, Lawyer, and 

 George can be in the hunt. Lawyer is a most taking dog, and when he made his debut he 

 was lauded to the skies, as the report in the Live Stock Journal of July 4, 1874, when he 

 was shown in the name of Nep, ran as follows : ' He appears to be good in all 

 points, golden-liver in colour, with rare coat, good frill in front, and a head so characteristic 

 of his breed that he must prove a very dangerous rival to Bebb when they meet in the ring.' 

 So it was when, at the next show, Mr. Lort, after a long and deliberate look over the class, 

 actually placed this dog over Buckingham a dog decidedly dark in colour, and very Pointer- 

 coated, but, as I have written before, said to be true-bred. Maude (his sister, same litter) is 

 of much the same stamp, and if she were a little longer in the head I don't know of one to 

 beat her. Max, though having liver-and-white blood in him, is decidedly the most typical 

 dog of the day, and, barring the white star on Landseer's Spaniel and pheasant picture, is 

 as like that worthy draughtsman's specimen as it is possible to be. I will now give you what 

 I consider to be the proper points of a Sussex Spaniel. Taking the head first it must be a 

 large head, but not too narrow or long, yet not chummy ; in measurement I should for a dog 



