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4. Chest, back, and loins (value 20). The chest should be deep, and with a 

 good girth ; back and loin full of muscle, and running well into one another, 

 with wide couplings, and well-turned hind quarters. 



5. The length (value 5) of the spaniel should be rather more than twice his 

 height at the shoulder. 



6. The legs (value 10) must be full of bone and straight ; elbows neither in 

 nor out ; quarters full of muscle, and stifles strong, but not very much bent. 



7. The feet (value 10) are round and cat-like, well clothed with hair between 

 the toes ; and the pads furnished with very thick horn. . 



8. The colour (value 5) preferred is a brilliant black, but in the best strains 

 of the dog an occasional liver or red puppy will appear. 



9. The coat (value 10J is flat, slightly wavy, soft and silky ; the legs are well 

 fringed or feathered like the setter, as also are the ears ; there must be no topknot 

 or curl between the eyes, indicating a cross of the water spaniel. 



10. The tail (value 10), which is always cropped short, must have a downward 

 carriage, and should not be set on too high. 



11. The symmetry (value 5) of the spaniel is considerable, and any departiire 

 from it should be penalised accordingly. 



Mr. Gillett's Brush is by Boulton's Eolf out of Gillett's Nell; Rolf by 

 Boulton's Beaver (4408) out of his Runic; Beaver by Boulton's Bruce (4412) 

 out of Nell; Runic by Rex, brother to Rhea (2228), out of Boulton's Fan. He 

 has only been exhibited twice, viz., at the Islington Kennel Club Show, where 

 Mr. Lort gave him the second prize, and at Stockton, where he was placed first 

 by Major Corven. Mr. Gillett's Nell is of the Burdett strain, but her pedigree is 

 not well made out. While the property of Mr. Boulton, she took the first prize 

 at Manchester and Stockton-on-Tees, and since she changed hands she has been 

 several times exhibited, and always with success. Mr. Langdale's Ladybird is by 

 a black Burdett dog out of a bitch by Withington's Dash out of Lort's Fan. 

 She has only been exhibited once, when she won the first prize at Whitby in 1876. 

 She was purchased by Mr. A. W. Langdale, of Scarborough. 



THE SUSSEX SPANIEL. 



Until the year 1872, Sussex spaniels were never distinguished as a separate 

 class at any of our shows, being admitted only as " other than Clumber," or as 

 "large spaniels." In that year, bowever, the Committee of the Crystal Palace 

 Show instituted a special prize for the Sussex breed, and their example was 

 followed in October at Nottingham, where the puce-coloured Rufus, bred by Mr. 

 Beesly, defeated Mr. P. Bullock's George, so named from his resemblance to the 

 dog selected by me in 1866 as the type of the breed. Mr. Soames' George has 

 never yet been surpassed, as far as my opinion and observation go, and I shall 

 therefore retain his portrait as efficiently representing the true type of the Sussex 

 spaniel. 



Before the above-mentioned constitution of a distinct class under the name 



