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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



the sport of hawking, but from his time up 

 to the middle of tlie nineteenth century, 

 though many colours are spoken of as being 

 appropriate to the various breeds of Spaniels, 

 no author mentions black. 



There appears to be no doubt that 

 " Stonehenge " — than whom no one is more 

 accurate — was right when he asserted that 

 the modern dog was " bred from a cross of 

 the Sussex with the old-fashioned Cocker 



of whom was most extraordinarily success- 

 ful, and owned a kennel of Field Spaniels 

 which was practically unbeatable between 

 the dates of the first Birmingham Show in 

 1861 and the publication of the first volume 

 of the Kennel Club's Stud Book in 1874, 

 many, if not most, of the dogs which won 

 for other owners having been bred by him. 

 His Nellie and Bob, who won the chief 

 prizes year after year at all the leading 

 shows, were probably the two best 

 specimens of their day, and Mr. 

 Rawdon Lee has selected Nellie as 

 his ideal Black Spaniel. 



Another most successful breeder 

 was Mr. W. W. Boulton, of Bever- 

 ley, who also bred a Nellie, who 

 with her son. Brush, was selected 

 by " Stonehenge " for especial 

 commendation and illustration in 

 his Dugs of the British Islands." 



MR. F. E. SCHOFIELDS CH. SOLUS 

 BY CH. BACHELOR SALUS (JULY, 1880). 



of Devon or Wales, selecting the 

 blacks, so as to become almost in- 

 variably of that colour." Anyone 

 who will take the trouble to trace 

 back Sussex, Cocker, and Field Spaniel 

 pedigrees, even as far as the first 

 volume of the Kennel Club's Stud 



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Book, will lind abundant confirma- 



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tion of this statement, and will be 

 forced to the conviction that this 

 variety owes its size and the greater por- 

 tion of its conformation to the Sussex, and 

 its colour to the old-fashioned Cocker. 



The first strain of blacks of which we 

 know much belonged to Mr. F. Burdett, and 

 was obtained from a Mr. Footman, of Lut- 

 terworth, Leicestershire, who was supposed 

 to have owned them for some time. Mr. Bur- 

 dctt's Bob and Frank may be found at the 

 head of very many of the best pedigrees. 

 At his death most of his Spaniels became 

 the property of Mr. Jones, of Oscott, and 

 Mr. Phineas Bullock, of Bilston, the latter 



H. HUMBLES CH. MATFORD DAISY 



CH MAGELLAN EXMINSTER MATFORD FLO. 



Mr. Boulton 's kennel produced many cele- 

 brated dogs, including Beverlac, said to be 

 the largest Field Spaniel ever exhibited, and 

 Rolf, whose union with Belle produced four 

 bitches who were destined, when mated 

 with Nigger, a dog of Mr. Bullock's breed- 

 ing, to form the foundation of the equally 

 if not more famous kennel belonging to Mr. 

 T. Jacobs, of Newton .\bbot. 



It was Mr. Jacobs who, by judiciously 

 matmg his Sussex sires Bachelor, Bachelor 

 III., and others with these black-bred 

 bitches, established the strain which in his 



