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the Blenheim being smaller than the King Charles, but it will be well to 

 state that we must look upon all of these old dogs as purely introductory to 

 the present type of toy spaniel. They were merely foundations in the same 

 way that the old Scotch terrier was what the Yorkshire mill hands began 

 work from which to develop the Yorkshire terrier. It is probable that the 

 Duke oT Norfolk, if he got his pets reduced in size, had round headed ones 

 among them, but there is no description extant that we know of, except as 

 to their colour. What became of his dogs is not known, but they could 

 hardly get into the hands of the London breeders, and we must give them 

 the credit of taking what was at their disposal and by the usual process of 

 selection along the fancy lines of th£ breed gradually getting more and more 

 of an exaggeration in shortness of face and size of skull. 



It will be seen by the first start of classes in London for under 7 pounds, 

 that they had already got the toy spaniel down to as small a size as we have 

 to-day. The question of colour came up at the end of the 70's and to satisfy 

 the seeming demand for the encouragement of other than black and tan, a 

 class was added to the Kennel club show of that year and a ruby was placed 

 first, followed by a tricolour, or black, white and tan, as they were still 

 called. The latter was called Tweedledee and was a full brother to a dog 

 called Conrad, the property of Miss Violet Cameron, the actress, which was 

 such a wonderful little dog that he was quite the talk of the London dog men 

 and it was due to Conrad's beauty that the "Prince Charles" became so 

 quickly popular and in demand at that time. But the dyed-in-the-wool 

 fanciers were still for the black and tan with their Jumbos and Young 

 Jumbos. 



Up to within the past ten or fifteen years the toy spaniel fancy in this 

 country was somewhat limited and it was almost a professional breed, few 

 amateurs exhibiting at even the largest shows, compared with what was the 

 case in other breeds. Of these old exhibitors the only one still showing is 

 Mrs. Senn. Both Mr. and Mrs. Senn have always taken a very prominent 

 part in the exhibiting of toys and in nothing more than in toy spaniels, from 

 the time of their Romeo up to the present day when Madame Patti, the ruby, 

 is the ideal spaniel of the fancy. 



At the present time the leading black and tan exhibitors in addition to 

 Mrs. Senn, are Mrs. M. Johnson, Mrs. Menges and Mrs. C. Waterman in 

 the New York district, Mrs. E. W. Clark of Egypt, Mass., and at Chicago 

 the Greenwood Kennels. It cannot be said that the breed is liberally 



