Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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until at last they reachedvanishing point, and shows ceased toprovide special classes for EnglishWater Spaniels. The entries in theStud Book fell off in the same man-they disappearedaltogether ; andalthough in thefollowing yeartwo were en-tered, the sec-tion devoted toWater Spanielsother thanIrish remainedblank till 1903.For a year ortwo previously afew gentlemen. MR. HARRY JONESTHE CHORISTERBY WYCLIFFE COUNT SONGSTRESS. THE SPORTING SPANIEL. 277 notably Mr. J. H. Stansfeld, Mr. HarryJones, and Mr. Winton Smith, had beenmaking heroic efforts to revive the in-terest in the breed, I am afraid withoutmuch success, since up to the presentdate most of the entries at shows havebeen provided by these three gentlemen picture by Reinagle on page 275 seemsto me to be as good a standard as any togo by, and the dog should in general ap-pearance resemble somewhat closely theSpringer, except that he may be somewhathigher on the leg, and that his coat shouldconsist of crisp, tight curls, almost like
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THE SECOND DUKE OF NEWCASTLE AND HIS CLUMBER SPANIELSFROM the Painting by FRANCIS WHEATLEY, R.A.. EXECUTED IN 1788. themselves. The best seen so far havebeen Mr. Winton Smiths Beechgrove Mal-lard, Mr. H. Jones Chorister and DivingBell, and Mr. Stansfelds Lucky Shot. Thelatter dog, despite his name, was unluckyin not being eligible for entry in the StudBook on account of an unknown pedigree,though he won at the Kennel Club Shows of1901 and 1902, and also at the Field Trials.The type of this breed is not very well fixedat present, being more or less in a transitionstage, and, although both the Spaniel Cluband the Sporting Spaniel Society publishdescriptions, it is rather hard to find aspecimen which quite fills the bill. The Astrakhan fur, everywhere except on hisface, where it should be short. There shouldbe no topknot like that of the Irish WaterSpaniel. Those who own this breed speak veryhighly of its intelligence, fidelity, and adapt-ability to sporting purposes ; but person-ally I

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