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tion, which leaves no unsettled question. as to the Duke’s specialty: “Our 
Marlborough and King James’s spaniels are unrivalled in beauty. The 
latter breed, that are black and tan, with hair almost approaching to silk 
in fineness (such as Vandyke loved to introduce into his portraits), were 
solely in the possession of the late Duke of Norfolk. He never travelled 
without two of his favourites in the carriage. When at Worksop he used 
to feed his eagles with the pups, and a stranger to his exclusive pride in 
the race, seeing him once thus destroying a whole litter, told His Grace 
how much he should be delighted to possess one of them. The Duke’s 
reply was a characteristic one: ‘Pray, sir, which of my estates should 
you like to have?’”’ 
In America quite a number of the old-fashioned sort are to be met 
with, more particularly about old settlements, where work for a dog of 
semi-aquatic habits can be advantageously used. Mr. D. S. Hammond, 
of Boston, informed us some time ago that in the outlying districts about 
Boston they are quite numerous, and we can speak as to the frequency 
with which they are met about the Hackensack meadows. In the village 
of that name we have seen at least half a dozen businesslike dogs about 
the streets, doubtless the descendants of dogs originally brought for the 
mixed shooting which the meadows afforded so plentifully in the days of 
Frank Forester. 
We fully agree with Mr. Lee when he writes in “Modern Dogs”: 
“Liver-and-white spaniels, almost infinite in shape and size, may be seen 
running about the streets in any country place. The sporting shopkeeper 
considers him the best shooting dog; and so he may be when properly 
trained, for he is a leggier, closer and better-coated dog than the ordinary 
spaniel we see when standing at the ringside. He will retrieve well from 
both land and water, work a hedge-row or thick covert, and indeed do 
anything that is the special work of the spaniel. Some of these liver-and- 
white spaniels are comparatively mute, whilst others are terribly noisy, 
yelping and giving tongue when hunting almost as freely as a hound. Still 
the chances are that the rustic sportsman who keeps but one dog and has 
not accommodation for more, prefers a liver-and-white spaniel, be it Nor- 
’ folk or otherwise, and as a rule, if he be not addicted to poaching, prefers 
it to make a noise when rabbiting in the dense gorse coverts.” 
To describe what we have always known as the Norfolk spaniel is 
a very easy task. He is a dog of no exaggerations, except perhaps. in the 
