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unbeaten record. At that time Mr. Jacobs sold a bunch of his dogs for 
$7,500 and retired from breeding and exhibiting. 
It would be quite incorrect to assume that no others during this period 
had any good spaniels. Far from it, but we have given the condensed 
record of what was accomplished at Newton Abbot, almost as much by 
way of showing what one man can do when he hits the right idea and 
carries it out. Besides Mr. Jacobs there were, at the time he first 
became prominent, Mr. Spurgin, Mr. Easton, Mr. Bowers and several 
others. Mr: Schofield also had the Bachelor cross, and was very success- 
ful with Salus, and from her came Solus, a beautiful black dog shown 
most successfully by Mr. Royle, of Manchester, who kept a mixed ken- 
nel of only high-class dogs. Mr. Marples, now of Manchester, was a later 
exhibitor, and after showing Midnight and a few others, finally got a really 
good one in Moonstone. Then came Mr. Woolland, Captain Thomas, 
Mr. Robert Chapman and others of a more modern period, all showing 
and breeding good dogs. 
Prone as Americans are to note anything new and striking in the 
English kennel world, it was to be expected that the very remarkable 
success of the Bachelor litters from Negress and Smutty would have its 
result here, and such proved to be the case. Mr. A. H. Moore, then the 
leading exhibitor in this country, imported one of the Smutty litter, shown 
here as Dash, which later on passed into the possession of the Hornell 
Spaniel Club. To our own kennel we imported Benedict, from the second 
Negress litter, and Mr. Kirk, of Toronto, got Toronto Beau, from the 
Kaffir-Squaw litter of 1880. Just to show that type was then by no means 
established, we got at the same time with Benedict a cocker spaniel shown 
as Beatrice, who was by Mr. Jacobs’s first field spaniel Nigger. But that 
was nothing out of the way, for, if one looks through the old American 
Kennel Register containing the records of the early importations, it is easy 
to see that there was little reliance to be placed on the dogs of that time, 
for we had as many cockers from Brush as we did spaniels over twenty- 
eight pounds. A great many dogs tracing to the Bullock and Burdette 
strains were cockers close to the limit of weight, and some well under. 
Another early importation was Success, a dog owned by Mr. J. H. 
Winslow, now of Philadelphia. This was a Schofield dog, being by Bach- 
elor out of Salus, and a winner of third at the Crystal Palace. Success 
unfortunately had a bad front, and when he met Benedict it was that 
