132 THE LARGE WATER-SPANIEL. 



who rarely walked out without being attended by several of 

 these spaniels. They were black and white, with curly hair, 

 small rounded heads, short muzzles, long ears, and webbed 

 feet. 



THE LARGE WATER-SPANIEL. (Canis aquaticus, Linn.) 



The large water-spaniel is probably descended from the com- 

 mon spaniel and the large water-dog. It somewhat resembles 

 the latter in the roughness of its coat. 



On August 13, 1836, Mr. Phillips, of the Swan Tavern, 

 Hungerford Market, gave a large water- spaniel to a gentleman 

 about to journey into Kent. The dog was taken by his new 

 master and embarked in a steamer for Ramsgate, where both 

 landed the same evening. They were travelling thence to 

 Canterbury, when, at Sarre, a village about midway, the dog 

 was missed. No tidings or traces of the animal could be 

 obtained, until some days afterwards, when, about six o'clock 

 one evening, he presented himself at his old master's house in 

 Hungerford Market, evidently fatigued and foot-sore by his 

 journey, which was, doubtless, a circuitous one, by the time he 

 was in performing it a distance of nearly seventy miles by the 

 direct road. Mr. Phillips does not believe that the dog was 



