SPANIEL.-SETTER.-TERRIER. 
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KING CHAF.LES SPANIEL. 
The spaniels are several. 
The King Charles, which 
may be used as a retriever— 
but he and the Blenheim 
are usually pets—the spring¬ 
er, cocker, chamber, and 
water-spanieL The last is 
a good one for a boy, being 
droll, affectionate, and capa¬ 
ble of being taught to fetch 
and carry, bring sticks from 
the water, etc. 
The setter is probably a 
large species of spaniel. It 
is taught to set or stand at 
birds, and is held in great 
value by sportsmen. He is 
not always a clean house¬ 
dog, and should be confined 
to his kennel. There are 
three kinds of setters, the English, Irish, and Russian—the latter more 
like a poodle. 
The poodle is a curly fellow, about the size of a spaniel, and can be taught 
an infinite variety of tricks and capers, to find lost money, bring articles 
THE SETTEE. 
from a distance, go through the military exercise, &c. 
SCOTCH TEEEIEE. COMMON ENGLISH TEKEIEB. 
The Scotch terrier is a rough, wiry little dog, with hair hanging over its 
eyes, so that those organs are hardly visible ; and when it is in tho water, 
its wetted hair quite obscures its vision. There is a smaller breed of these 
dogs, called the “Skye terrier,” whoso principal beauty seems to consist in 
their ugliness. 
