CHAPTER XI 
Tue CLuMBER SPANIEL 
HE Clumber spaniel affords a most striking illustration of 
the difficulty experienced in tracing the history of dogs, 
when it comes to some special variety. Here is a breed 
said to have been kept at one place, by one of the leading 
SS families of England, and to have been there for two hundred 
years, having, according to accepted tradition originally been presented to 
one of the Dukes of Newcastle by the Duc de Noailles. 
“Tdstone” in “The Dog” (1872), wrote as follows: “They were 
given, Daniel tells us, to one of the former Dukes of Newcastle by the Duc 
‘de Nouailles. Vero Shaw, or whoever wrote the Clumber article for his 
“Book of the Dog,” had read “Idstone” thoroughly and says: “We learn 
on the authority of Daniel that the breed was imported into this country 
by a Duke of Newcastle, who acquired them from the Duc de Nouailles 
many years ago.” Lee in his “Modern, Dogs,” writes: “It (the intro- 
duction) was probably about the middle of the eighteenth century when 
the Duc de Nouailles presented the then Duke of Newcastle.with'a number 
of spaniels, which in France had the reputation of being better than ‘any 
others, as. they were steady. workers and easily brought under command, 
i. e., there was little difficulty in training them.” Mr. Lee, it will be seen, 
added materially to the number of crows in the original story and rather 
mixes things by immediately saying: “Although in various parts of France 
many. spaniels are still found and used in work, I have not been able to trace 
any kennels of true Clumbers in that country.” The Clumber article in 
Stonehenge’s first edition (1867) did duty up to and including his 
fourth and last edition in 1878, and the Daniel eey is not given, so that 
it would seem to have originated with “Idstone.” 
We have preserved the letter “u” in the name of the French: aoblenan 
to show that each of these writers ‘after “Tdstone”’ copied from him. : The 
slightest :investigation on their part would have. proved several- things: 
first, that: Daniel makes no mention of Clumber spaniels. nor the names 
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