70 ALL ABOUT DOGS 



stand a deal of it. Another of the family I am very 

 partial to and have sometimes met with and kept as a 

 companion, is the Clumber. I think this is the most 

 aristocratic-looking of the sporting varieties of the 

 breed, and should be a creamy white, with patches of 

 lemon or light orange-tan, about the head and body. 

 Either the tactics of the sportsmen of the present day 

 are too rapid, or for some other cause, but there cer- 

 tainly are not so many of the breed to be seen now as 

 there were some fifteen or twenty years since, but I am 

 glad to see the present Duke of Newcastle is keeping 

 up the breed at Clumber, where it is supposed to have 

 been originally produced, and that there are still a few 

 kennels in the country, where they are breeding some 

 of these beautiful dogs, for I contend that a Clumber, 

 in good form and well-groomed (when his coat will 

 have quite a bloom on it), is one of the handsomest 

 dogs a sportsman can wish to accompany him, and 

 although his build and formation are not suited for a 

 high rate of speed, he can get over a good deal of 

 ground in the course of the day, and render some use- 

 ful service to his owner and his friends. In that cele- 

 brated book, " The Master of the Game," preserved 

 in the British Museum, and attributed to a royal au- 

 thor, being supposed to be written by a son of King 

 Edward III. (who died in 1402), the Spaniel is spoken 

 of as " Saynolfe," no doubt a term intended for " Spay- 

 nolfe," and is described as one of the hounds used for 

 hawking, and called a Spaynel, " because the nature 

 of him cometh from Spain, notwithstanding they are 

 to be found in other countries/' and such hounds, the 



