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great length. Tail bushy, but not at all woolly, the hair being waved only, 
not curled. It is generally cropped.” 
From the weight being put at from thirty to forty pounds, and a remark 
in the Clumber article in the first edition of “The Dogs of the British 
Islands,” that the Duke’s team shown at Islington in 1863 were rather 
small, it is evident that the Newcastle dogs had not progressed in size as had 
others. In this article the weight is put at forty to forty-five pounds, and 
Stonehenge never made any change in the various editions of this work, 
which gave him his world-wide reputation. The dog Lapis, selected by 
Dalziel to illustrate his “British Dogs,’”’ weighed sixty-two pounds, and he 
was a Palace winner in 1877. Lee then sets the weight at from fifty-five 
to sixty-five for.dogs and from forty-five to fifty-five pounds for bitches, 
an increase of twenty-five pounds in as many years of our definite knowl- 
edge of the breed. Finally the English Clumber Club raises the weights to 
seventy for dogs and sixty for bitches. 
One reason for the slow progress that the Clumber made was that one 
dog was of little use, so slow are they in their movements, and it called for 
a team of several braces, as many as could be obtained, in fact, to be of use 
for a shooting party. This entailed special training and looking after 
by a man who could handle them, for they would not work for every 
person or any person. This was naturally a drawback to the ex- 
tended use of this breed, and although it did become somewhat spread, 
it did so only to a limited extent among those who could make use 
of the dog to the best advantage, having coverts suited to his style of 
work, and capable handlers. 
In America the Clumber has had a very erratic career. In 1880 we 
remember Mr. Tileston’s Trimbush and Fairy, the former being a very 
good dog, so good indeed that we asked Mr. Dalziel, who was one of the 
foreign judges that year, what he thought of the dog, and he agreed with us 
that he was most typical and fit to win anywhere. He was entered as im- 
ported and “full pedigree,” a verv customary way of giving pedigree at the 
early shows. It is a long look back, but Trimbush was a dog that has lingered 
in our memory as one of the best we have seen in this country. He was 
shown at New York the following year by Mr. De Luze, but in wretched 
condition, and got “the gate.” ‘The next Clumber had rather an amusing 
history. We picked him up at the public stores, where he had been left by the 
man who brought him over. He had no pedigree, but his history seemed 
