Chesapeakes and IVafer-spaniels i6i 



quality of temper, and neither of these breeds 

 smells too sweet. In the dry and long summers 

 of the West they are liable to skin diseases — 

 mange and the like. The Irish spaniel is par- 

 ticularly unfortunate in this susceptibility to 

 eczema and mange. So, except in duck retriev- 

 ing as a steady profession, these two breeds are 

 not attractive. Few men get more than a week 

 or such a matter on ducks in a year, and shooting 

 becomes thinner picking every season. So the 

 water retrievers do not win supporters. 



Still, there are followers of the sport who stick 

 to their retrievers. The Carroll Island Club, of 

 Baltimore membership, is where the Chesapeake 

 Bay dog is most highly honored and most care- 

 fully bred. Ducks or no ducks, General Latrobe 

 and his friends will no doubt maintain the excel- 

 lence and purity of their strain for a long period. 

 Many good-working Irish water-spaniels are dis- 

 tributed through the lake country between the 

 St. Lawrence and the Red River of the North, 

 where retrieving is a necessary adjunct of duck- 

 ing and where the water is too chilly for a setter, 

 though the duck season begins early. An excel- 

 lent animal of the useful type. The O'Donoghue, 

 left a family up in that region when he died a few 

 years ago. There is enough other good blood to 

 preserve the integrity of the breed as long as may 

 be desired. Champion Dan Maloney is the last 



