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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[April 21, 1881. 



Bitch— Daisy Dean, L V 



Dog— rianti, T. P., pon! 



There ace two purely 

 moucl, Esq., Pride of B 

 euro the information i 

 Canada, aud the othe 

 Quiuiby, of Morriatown 



The dog l'enn, adve 

 purely bred aetttff of th; 

 and in given aB 13-4(3 Le 

 Fussy 7,203. bred by G 

 champion Rock. 



Raby, of Dr. Gautior's in, port:. lion, it is settled, we believe, is a 

 purely bred Laverack Heller. There was a dispute on thisjpoint 

 not long after the importation ot 'Bride of the Rordor and Fairy, 

 but it is conceded now that she wan bred by Mr. Laverock. We 

 give her pedigree in frill : 



Ruby 



of Border, Ruby, Dr. Gautier. 



LIS COLS, WAKRKX. MASS. 



•y IB, 1880, ,T. 0. Higgins. 

 vcrac.k setters bred by C. H. Ray- 

 airy dogs, of which we cannot pro- 

 d like. One. Ranger, is owned in 

 . l.oile, once owued by Mr. E. 



a the stud as a Laverock, is not a 

 . In a podigree does not claim such, 

 .nd S-16 Field Trial. He is out of 

 Esq. tLeatbei'head) by Bletcber's 



Mystery 



Jett Duchess 

 (b, w A: t) (blue) 



Cora 



Moll 

 (b, w & t) 



Sting Hello 

 (blue) (bw.fct) 



♦Since the above was in trpo wo learn that Peeress 

 property of Mr. Bailey Harrison, Tilsonburg, Ontario. 



COCKER SPANIELS. 



Cora 

 i now the 



VISITORS at shows during the past few year* could not have 

 helped noticing the beautiful spaniels at all times exhibited, 

 and, taking Ihe Biruuiighani and Kennel Club shows of the last 

 two seasons, there is a deal to indicate that (he breeds have great- 

 ly improved in appearance at least, from what we can recollect of 

 spaniels in earlier days. There are uo breeds better calculated to 

 receive development than spaniels, as, accordiug to my ideas of 

 breeding, there is no greater proof of a long-established breed than 

 when we see it predominate over another breed when the two are 

 crossed. For instance, a dropper between a pointer and setter will 

 resemble the purest breed parent of the two, and, if i be parents 

 are both equally well bred, the produce will be more nondescript in 

 appearance than if. for the above-mentioned reason, there was a 

 leaning to one side The foxhound, the bulldog and the blood- 

 hound are all romarkablo for having the predominance m a cross, 

 aud their line is more difficult to work out thau a strain of any 

 other breed. This, I maintain, is accounted for by the fact that 

 they have for a number of years been breed into then- own lines, 

 aud, consequently, these lines are very strong. In my travels 

 about, not particularly at shows, but through the country, I have 

 boon struck with tho appearance of the spaniels in different dis- 

 tricts, aud, after a lapse of ten or B dozen years, I have thought it 

 remarkable that the same sort of spaniel is seen about the streets! 

 of towns, as one can easily recollect, at earlier visits to Ihe town in 

 question. It returns to one's memory that the saddler of the 

 town or his son had a spaniel thai, was gouoraliv seen basking on 

 the pavement, a liver and white dog, Beaked with a good, short, 

 thick coat of silky texture, and with a fair amouut of feather, but 

 hardly like the show dogs in this particular. It also occurs to your 

 niemory that you could have bought the saddler's dog or any other 

 spaniel' in the town for about two pounds or fifty shillings, and in 

 the same quarters you do not find them muoh more expensive than 

 that now, while you can see the very counterpart of the saddler's 

 dog doing about the same as he used to do, namely, basking on 

 the pavement. Now, considering the results that usually follow 

 when dogs are allowed the freedom of the streets, and that care 



and attention 

 what singular that th 

 in their own likeness 

 that then- blood has : 

 the strength of the 

 niongrelisrag with : 



eof tho aorta I allude'to, 

 nd I refer more particularly 



sndeucy to raise value, it 

 liel J continue to reproduce themselves 

 narkable degree. One cannot believe 

 >een kept pure, but it would seem that 

 so great as to stand a fan- amount of 

 very marked effects. How would it be if 



ago they ■ 

 They wei' 

 medium e 

 by the foi 

 growth oi 



country, l 

 the pi: 



;ood, and many sportsi 

 i, bred with 



en kept ten 



.nd atteiitio 



u'efully bred, 

 Mslter? Ye. 



a of thei 



abo 

 trav 



public! 



lets di 



'. by - 



zed, but very heavy dogs for their inches, and capable, 

 ce of their own weight, of pushiug through covert of any 

 thickness. It was the most popular dog of a sport-loving 

 ■lit as battue shooting and such like innovations usurped 

 of rough shooting, so have the teams or kennels of 

 and the breed has continued, as I have stated 

 izard, as, for instance, by the saddler of the town 

 sphboring farmer another and may be a sporting 



|; .or! i'HO.i for I 1 1 mo she , ., 



tsort - 



.n a third. Tl 

 _ e-brakes, and f or"t 

 individuals would not li 

 them I do not think the 

 findiug, or for their tin 

 was asked a short time aj 

 spaniel that bad won pri 

 thorns and hillsides of 

 spaniels could do. I a 

 were to be of the greati 

 work. I then recommended 

 bitch, that could be bred frc 

 quarter I applied to that th. 

 bought for monev. At Brtiss 

 most wrung niv hands off wi 

 of the 



■p the! 



Fthoi 



Ifrc 



, to bo 



c the abov 

 ve seen of 



ked whether the 



and the reply t 



He 



■lit to 



tell that h 



ish-looking little 

 looked ■ 



tl trial, 



good C 



ni, and I took goo. 

 :-V should be the be 

 els show last year th 

 th thanks, and told 

 kill game over ever 

 id bv tho atvle he sol 

 but h 



short 

 his legi 



i tho head, loi 

 and feet. I 

 nd I think th; 

 should be eu 



vih 



roata 



■marked Us 



mnt of ■ 



spami 



The 



black 



I knee 



utifu 



> qu 



. but 11 



; and as I know that 

 igard for brambles a 

 , in the character of 

 ded the Devon cock 

 uk, too, that when tl 



adopted I 



jeen them at 

 nothing can 1 

 id thorn*, s< 



i good spaiu 

 srs when the 

 e slipshod wi 

 ve indication 



eat the latl 



essential, 

 jl. I have c 



leptible 



i2*3 



3 day, and all beloi 



more especially when such 



ingth if they happen to be en 



I fullv admit that the spaniels seen at flho' 



been bred for points and beauty, are any amount 



ite one taking p 

 re litter ; and there has 

 xx spaniel being shown 

 both belonged to the 

 ewe to infer that this 

 if manufacturing one? 

 r sorts it is well known 

 lanufacturing policy, as 

 id aud maintained from 

 jdHBhow (he 

 dwith other 

 such as have 

 front of the 



Devon or Welsh cockers on the I 

 should be ascertained that the i 

 has been all that could be desin 

 of the spaniel such as we know 1 

 Devon cocker is born with sport 

 ■ord when he is only tbn 



3ore of appearauce, but I think it 

 lodern high breeding of spaniels 

 d for retaining the intrinsic merit 

 ,m to be as a sporting dog. The 

 in him. He will hunt of his own 

 ithsold. aud it seems so instinct- 



ively in them to hunt that I have known an old bitch take off kc_ 

 litter of puppies as soon as they are able to run, and teach them to 

 hunt rabbits in a furze brake. I should like some one to tell me, 

 from actual experience, his caudid opinion as to the beat breed of 

 spaniels for work, aud I think it would be a good plan if souio 

 sort of trials were established to test the question. It would help 

 breeders, and it would guide show committees as to the right dis- 

 tribution of their classes, for at present I think the cocker classes 

 iltogether on a wrong footing. It does not appear altogether ', 



fort 



what a cocke 



e Sussex classes, bind, classes, and 



-,-ee any 



iel. My idea is that some of the liver and 



liver and white spaniel. My idea is that some of the liver and j 

 white families are really more distinct and further apart than the 

 Sussex arc from the black ones, and, if so, is there nnv reason why 

 they should not be separated? The Devonshire spaniel* are, in 

 my opinion, certainly worthy of more attention, and those who are 

 fortunate enough to own some of the beat representatives of the 

 breed might do veiy well for themselves by bringing such a useful 

 sort iuto notice. They might urge show committees, in their own 

 county at least, to give classes for Devon spaniels only, to be no 

 other color than liver or liver and white, and to have been bred in 

 the county, from county stock. I commend this suggestion spec- 

 ially to both the Devon and Cornwall Chambers of Agriculture, 

 as at their annual show dogs are made an adjunct, and some of the 

 Devon and Cornish farmers are the beet breeders of these 

 spaniels. Very often oue or two are kept on a farm purposely to 

 hunt rabnits, audi! they are not always the best broken ones, they 

 are undeniable for work, and will face furze, brambles or thorns 

 of any growth in quest of game. They will also keep on hunting 

 from 'morning till night, aud if they look a bit fagged at the end 

 of a long day, the sight of a gnu tho next morning will make them, 

 if anything," too lively again, as they are excitable to a fault, and 

 no oiio could give a Devonshire spaniel too much work to keep hhn 

 in good working trim.— Bell's Life. 



It is not so much in the cases of the older dogs that this objection 

 con be raised against, the Clumbers, for a matured dog of this 

 variety usually keeps hale and hearty to a ripe old age, and in- 

 creases iu saga city and value as the year- mil on. It is in then' 

 puppyhood that, young clumbers are peculiarly siieceptible to the 

 ills to which puppyhood is oePeeiallv heir. As a rule, they suffer 

 terribly from the ravages of distemper, and most breeders of 

 clumbers are ou thorns until their valuable stock have safely 

 passed through this ordeal. Yellows or jaundice they also are 

 very subject to, and if it appears in an aggravated form the malady 

 is usually fatal to the invalid. In spile, however, of the difficulty 

 experienced in retiring dogs of this description, the clumber baa 

 always been a popular snaniel with sportsmen, and his character 

 fully entitles him to the respect which he has won himself from 

 the highest in the land. Following on theDiike of Newcastle, tho 

 names of Earl Spencer, the Duke of Westminster, the Earl of 

 Abingdon, tho Duke of Norfolk aud tho Duke of Portland, have 

 all been identified at ono time or another with kennels of thin 

 breed. Tho latter nobleman has at the present time a large and 

 unusually strong kennel of clumber spaniels ; but, as they do not 

 appear often at dog shows, the btiblic have but Blender oppor- 

 tunities of judging their merits, and comparing his Grace's "dogs 

 with those from better-known kennels. Mr. R. S. Holford, of 

 Tetbury, formerly showed some excellent specimens of the bfeed, 

 and Mr. Yeatmau is also well known in connection with the owner- 

 ship of many good dogs, nor must that old breeder, Mr, Eoljambe, 

 be omitted from the list. 



In addition to his aristocratic tissoeiatious, [lie clumber spaniel 

 has much to recommend Win to the general body of sportsmen, 

 who, as a budv, are more mchued to value a sporting dog on ac- 

 count of his own intrinsic merit thau because he has been the re- 

 cipient of patrician patronage. In covert shooting of a certain de- 

 scription the clumber is almost unsurpassed by any breed, and ft 

 peculiarity iu tho breed is that the pure-bred ones, almost without 

 exception, hunt mute, which enables them to draw close up to 

 their game without disturbing it. On this account clumbers are 

 very frequently worked with bells attached to their collars, as by 

 the holp of these they can gradually drive the game forward, and 

 the guns can more readily tell then- whereabouts in tho covert. 

 These spaniels can be worked in teams of any number upwards of 



Mr. A. H. Moore's Imported English Setter Dog "Dar'kie." 



[From a photograph lurnlshed to us by Major Piatt, the breeder and former owner of " Darkle. "| 



THE SPANIEL. 



u sheets of Vero Sh 



Book rf the Doj 



[Reprinted tron 



furnished to me 1'okest and stream uy tue autnor, tnrougn 

 the courtesy of tas.-cll, Fetter. Union, a, Co., publishers. No. 596 

 Broadway, New York.j 



TUK CLUMBER 8PAKIEL. 



'THE next of the spaniel family iu order of merit is the clumber 



-P' 1, wtoii ''urn. fl-on, .'; .no e tl m.l V 1 ..is- lli.el: 



families in the land has fairly entitled hhu to rank as the aristo- 

 crat of tho tribe. The name bv which he is known— clumber— is 

 unquestionably derived from the seat of the Duke of New Castle, 

 where the breed has nourished for years, aud this has given rise 

 to the impression among sportsmen that the dumber spaniel owes 

 his existence and origin to some early member of that illustrious 

 house. This is scarce! y the fact, however, as we learn ou the 

 authority of Daniels that the breed was imported into this country 

 by a Duke of New Castle, who acquired them from the Due de 

 Nonailles many years ago. It is nevertheless equally certain that 

 the breed was 'for a long time treasured at Clumber, and that it 

 was extremely difficult for outsiders to gain possession of a 



As regards his origin little can be said, as it ia veiled in obscur- 

 ity ; but it may be remarked that certain authorities have argued 

 iu favor of there being a remote cross of the foreign basset-hound 

 in the clumber spaniel, though as far as our experience gOBB the 

 supporters of this theory have hitherto failed to substantiate then- 

 statements bv an appeal to facte. However, this theoiy has fouud 

 its way into print, and may therefore be given merely as. a theory 

 which' has been propounded, and Without any intention ou our 

 part to support it. A great deal might be said ou the antiquity of 

 fhis variety by those who are disposed to attach importance to the 

 possession' of "this attribute, for Edmund do Langley, who wrote in 

 ihe fourteenth century described the spaniel as coming out of 

 "Spayn," and being hi color white and 'tawny, with a large head 

 and body. It therefore appears to us that it would require a very 

 slight stretch of imagination to connect the ancient spaniel alluded 

 to by iwlmnnd do Langley with tho solemn-looking but patrician 

 clumber of tho present day. Nor would this reasoning in any way 

 deb-act from Daniel's statement that the strain of clumber has 

 originated from some dogs procured from the kennels of the Due 

 de Nouaillos On the contrary, it. seems to be a support to it, as it 

 is extremely likely that his dogs would resemble in many respects 

 the breed that, according to the " Minster of Game, - ' existed in 

 Spain in the fourteenth century. Mauy authorities, no doubt cor- 

 rectly, connect the clumber spaniel with the old setting dog, who 

 was included by Dr. Cains, iu his spaniel chapter, under the title 

 of index or setter. In the present day, however, the duties of the 

 clumber span, el uriqiic.i.ioiia'nU lie more in the direction of covert- 

 shooting than driving birds iu tho open, especially as both setters 

 and pointers can readily be found who can manage the latter busi- 

 ness far better than the short-legged spaniela can. 



iu,..!., i ■.! thi jealously with which the dumber strain 



was formerly guarded bv the Dukes of Newcastle, it was a difficult 

 matter to procure a specimen years ago, and, therefore, indifferent 

 clumbers fetched Yerv luyb prices when in the market. Of recent, 

 years, however, dogs'of this variety can be more readily procured, 

 and their value has sensibly dim, niched. Iu addition to the high 

 value which their rarity placed upon the clumbers, the fact of 

 their being for years very mnch in-breed brought about the 

 inevitable result, and signs'of constitutional delicacy began to ap- 

 pear, which have remained characteristics of tho breed ever since. 



one brace and ft half, aud when this practice is resorted to it has a 

 singularly taking effect, in addition to which good .-port is certain 

 to be provided for the guns if any game ia hi the covert, as the 

 clumber beats his ground mo*t "thoroughly, being a very close 

 worker. In working iu teams they show but little jealously, and 

 single specimens caii readily be broken to retrieve and take water, 

 which naturally increases 'their value veiv considerably in the 

 sport Oman's eve-. The v. ice el a c.iu.iilci sin. iih.l not exceed 

 thirty vards, and thee should be broken to down charge, or to re- 

 turn 'in a body when the shot is fired. It is not many sportsmen, 

 however, who are in a position to work a team of clumbers as few 

 kennels contain a sufficient number to enable them to do so, but, 

 as will have been seen above, a single clumber spaniel is a valuable 

 assistance to the sportsman engaged m novwt shooting. 



.. In,.,, funnelled with the following notes bv Mr. A. TV, 

 Langdale, who has devoted considerable attenlion to the clumber 

 as well as to the Sussex spa niel. and has kindly sent us bis ideas 

 for publication : 



'• This beautiful spaniel is believed to be the oldest known breed 

 of dog genus spaniel, and was preserved many years ago Bfljst 

 strictly. The Duke of Newcastle's name has always been as- 

 sociated with the clumber, as it was from this" nobleman's estate 

 the breed took the name. Through in-breeding a tew years back 

 they almost looked like disappearing, but now, I am glad to say, 

 that in the Duke of Portland's, Lord Arthur Cecil's, Earl 

 Spencer's, and many other suortsiiieivs kennels, may be found 

 specimens as good as, if not bolter than, ever were. They are 

 often used for covert shooting in teams of nine, and being natural- 

 ly mute when at work are, of great value, as they can work up close 

 enough to a pheaiauitto almost clutch him. 



" As regards the various points, of course the head comes fore- 

 most ; this should be decidedly heavy and at least seventeen or 

 eighteen inches round, with a deep stop and a ilesh-colored nose, 

 a freckled law and lemon markings of such an even nature that 

 von could not at lust sight, tell the off from the near side of the 

 'head. The lower jaw recedes, as in most spaniels, so as to give 

 the appearauce of being anything but square. His fore-legs 

 should be short, strong and so put on that when, as is often the 

 case, they descend or jump down steep banks or walls, they stand 

 the shock it must give them from their weight ; the feet must be 

 largo, and put together closer than that of his water brother. 

 Length of body is a great point, but not less is . the depth of his 

 girth fore and aft, so many specimens does one see i 

 good fore-legs set on nice and low and the hind 

 lofty. The ears should be sqtiarer than those of t 

 Bhoiild not he " 





■rt < 



ate 



■tit 1 



carried at about the same angle as a lancer's pennon on the slope. 

 The coat Bhould be thick and smooth— curl is decidedly objec- 

 tionable—and, lastly, the color should be white with lemon or very 

 pale orange markiugs ; tho fewer of these about the body the bet- 

 ter. Weight for dogs varies from fifty-seven to sixty-five pounds, 

 but the bitches run much lighter, the heaviest I ever saw scaled 

 being my ownLibnah, and she pulled down fifty pouuds." 



The head should be large, long and massive. Hat at the top. and 

 with a decided occipital protuberance. 



The muzzle wide and powerful looking. In this respect we 

 differ from the views expressed above by Mr. A. W. Langdale. 



The nose large and flesh-colored. 



The eye moderately large, light hazel-colored, and rather deeply 

 set. 



The neck long though very powerful, and free from, all throati- 



