2 8o DOGS AND ALL ABOUT THEM 



ancestral points. Although this variety is of the same family, 

 and has the same name, as the short-nosed Blenheim of 

 the present day, there is a great deal of difference between the 

 two types. The Marlborough is higher on the legs, which 

 need not be so fully feathered. He has a much longer muzzle 

 and a flatter and more contracted skull. The Marlborough 

 possesses many of the attributes of a sporting Spaniel ; but 

 so also does the modern Blenheim, although perhaps in a 

 lesser degree. He has a very good scent. Mr. Rawdon B. 

 Lee states that " the Blenheims of Marlborough were excellent 

 dogs to work the coverts for cock and pheasant, and that 

 excepting in colour there is in reality not much difference 

 in appearance between the older orange and white dogs (not 

 as they are to-day, with their abnormally short noses, round 

 skulls, and enormous eyes), and the liver and white Cockers 

 which H. B. Chalon drew for Daniel's Rural Sports in 1801." 



This will bear out the statement that the smaller type of 

 Spaniel may be descended from the Cockers. 



The ground colour of this dog is white, with chestnut 

 encircling the ears to the muzzle, the sides of the neck are 

 chestnut, as are also the ears. There is a white blaze on the 

 forehead, in the centre of which should be a clear lozenge- 

 shaped chestnut spot, called the beauty spot, which by in- 

 breeding with other varieties is fast being lost. Chestnut 

 markings are on the body and on the sides of the hind-legs. 

 The coat should incline to be curly ; the head must be flat, 

 not broad, and the muzzle should be straight. The chestnut 

 should be of a rich colour. 



The four varieties the King Charles, Tricolour or (as he has 

 been called) Charles I. Spaniel, the modern Blenheim, and the 

 Ruby have all the same points, differing from one another in 

 colour only, and the following description of the points as 

 determined by the Toy Spaniel Club serves for all : 



Head Should be well domed, and in good specimens is absolutely 

 semi-globular, sometimes even extending beyond the half-circle, and 

 projecting over the eyes, so as nearly to meet the upturned nose. Eyes 



