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ReE, Ms liwv^ver, beMi^ aH^wed-to make a choice ,c^ a 
dos and b'mM, l^mmh and- from them mosiofthe 
Surn^^-iiAMhmm ^ Ne^ingt^?;ot 
Tkv^.v>?«*t,, kif*^ :^^i%ti^er oT the breed. As a l^€t it 
rc# Hm n(m^^ W CSatEdo Cane, and Mr J. Ei^eat) 
iUitr i2^f «h« folding' the daima^oS, 
the -a . yl' mi ^ 4 Ai Bnd of London prevented him- 
fi-oj.n ont the breed in 1906, .S%» 
-w dogS'fetd^ sometht^g 
m^,. ,.4Vi4^ hntfiswra have been won by doga 
%% the dash of the- springer, thepft-is 
^.r '^j:|^^'-;'^ .«#-.‘-5«i » the Sussex spaniel which eveiy i^e 
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■ ~ ‘^k - ■ #ms*i be made of the merry cocker, though -at so^ 
;:14 ?«.^}eelmen.s of the variety have been liandj.capped: 
*^*K? js-^«ji,ti^'( the bigger and heavier spaniels, and it has been 
rii>kaJ'i.«st.»S€eacocker not weighing twenty poundsattempting toretrl^v^- 
a b% hare. Ot eoisrse some, includmg those run by Mr -R. de Courcy 
. Heseltiae. Mr O. Al PhilUps, the Duke of-HamOton. and Mr X ^ 
Wmi- rton have been able to do that, but retrieving is not the cocker'^^ 
Y,'ork, and we should like to see him confined: to pushing out: game 
r.he iorse or hedgerow. .At this work -a cocker with, the right, spirit Is 
best of !i.ie gusidog race, and one of the prettiest sights on the shooi'is^, 
lleld ia to see a team of them beating out suitable. ground. They have tw^ 
•|;Oim-d very useful on the grouse moors and are so handy that quite a tc'^ 
of taem can be carried in a motor car or in a dog~cart for use on the xnf _ 
or at a piwitnmht drive. il wantedior retrieving', a cocker should not we«.^ 
less fer> a^cocker sufoci 
■-£>r 4 .^ on <s» 4 r>r|. a rabbit or pheass^n 
' ^dosely. as second favout^?^ 
h 'q0i» 'but a hare wants 
;,^. I Oam.^t- cockers are primarily sport, 
4#^ M El get them big enou^. 
m w M oversized at. W -’ 
Idairk of physique and--ste ^ 
euoiigci 4f^ ^ There pkMy lor sinail. spanieis 
there are pim^ a work;. but- to- do that 
he must not b* a man,w'ho expects a sp'"' 
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