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DOMESTICATED DOGS. 



(d) the modern cockek. 



English and Welsh Cockers. 



Although in "Wales and Devonshire a small liver-coloured cocker 

 is still used, yet the fashion of the day in other parts of the 

 country is to use a somewhat larger spaniel, generally of a black 

 colour, and known as the modern cocker. This dog is now 

 expected to be the servant-of-all-work to the shooter, and takes 

 his turn at rabbits, pheasants, or even partridges, when he is 

 called on, with the greatest zest. He is bred from a cross of the 

 Sussex with the old-fashioned cocker of Devon or Wales, 

 selecting the blacks, so as now to become almost invariably of 

 that colour. 



Points of the modern cocker : — 



