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Princess Nadine is an equally good repre- 
sentative of the opposite sex. 
The Griffon Boulet has many of the same 
characteristics as the Korthals Griffon, the 
chief difference being that his coat is much 
longer and not so hard in texture. He is at 
present the favourite purely native Spaniel 
in France, and there were several admirable 
specimens shown at the Tuileries Gardens 
in May, 1907. A decidedly rugged, coarse- 
GRIFFON BOULET CH. MIKADO DE MARCO. 
BRED BY M. &. BOULET, ELBEUF. 
looking dog, he is evidently meant for work 
rather than for ornament, yet his expression 
is friendly and intelligent, in spite of his 
wild and ungroomed aspect, with his broad, 
round head, square muzzle, heavy mous- 
taches, and strong, overhanging eyebrows. 
The iris of his eye seems always to be yellow 
and the nose always brown. The ears are 
set on low and hang slightly folded, well 
covered with wavy hair. The shoulders 
project somewhat instead of sloping. The 
loins are slightly arched and end in a straight 
stern nicely carried, and not too shortly 
docked. The coat is fairly long and semi- 
silky, without being glossy, flat rather 
than wavy, and never curly. Its colour is 
that of a dead chestnut leaf or a dark coffee 
brown, with or without white ; never black 
or yellow. For dogs, the height is given at 
21 to 224 inches, for bitches a little less. 
THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 
The weight averages 56 lb. Undoubtedly 
the most famous Griffon Boulet of recent 
times is Ch. Mikado de Marco, the property 
of M. Dumontier, of Neubourg, Eure. 
This most typical dog is of aristocratic 
descent, as he has no fewer than twenty-nine 
champions in his pedigree, all of them, 
like himself, bred by M. Emanuel Boulet. 
The Barbet is yet another ancient breed 
of French Spaniel, the dog par excellence 
for waterfowl. Beyond 
all others he is at home 
on the marshes, and 
even in the most severe 
weather he will swim 
amid the broken ice 
after a winged mallard 
or a wounded heron. 
For the wildfowler he 
is a most valuable 
companion, and _ prob- 
ably no other Spaniel 
can bear the same 
hardships with equal 
indifference. A perfect 
swimmer, he retrieves 
dead or crippled game 
to perfection, and in 
intelligence he is hardly 
inferior to the Poodle. 
With his compact build, 
his round, short head, and long woolly and 
much corded coat, the Barbet appears to be 
identical with the old English water dog 
depicted in Reinagle’s drawing on p. 274 
of this book. 
Somewhat allied to the Barbet in general 
appearance and the nature of his work 
is the important gun-dog known in Italy 
as the Spinone. In colour he is grey 
and roan, and although he has often been 
mistaken for the Bracco, he may be 
recognised by his less oval head as well 
as by his shorter and less supple ear. The 
coat is wire-haired, excepting the legs, 
where the hair is quite short. He is also 
smoother and shorter in the head and muzzle. 
The eyebrows are long and straight, and the 
lip has bristling moustaches. As in the case 
of the Bracco, dewclaws on the hind legs 
are a sign of purity of race. The Spinone is 
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