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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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VII.
THE
ENGLISH
SPRINGER.--It
is
only
quite
recently
that
the
Kennel
Club
has
officially
recognised
the
variety
known
by
the
name
at
the
head
of
this
section.
For
a
long
time
the
old-fashioned
liver
and
white,
or
black
Spaniels,
longer
in
the
leg
than
either
Sussex
or
Field
Spaniels,
had
been
known
as
Norfolk
Spaniels,
and
under
this
title
the
Spaniel
Club
has
published
a
description
of
them.
There
had,
however,
been
a
considerable
amount
of
discussion
about
the
propriety
of
this
name
of
"Norfolk,"
and
the
weight
of
the
evidence
adduced
went
to
show
that
as
far
as
any
territorial
connection
with
the
county
of
that
name
went,
it
was
a
misnomer,
and
that
it
probably
arose
from
the
breed
having
been
kept
by
one
of
the
Dukes
of
Norfolk,
most
likely
that
one
quoted
by
Blaine
in
his
Rural
Sports,
who
was
so
jealous
of
his
strain
that
it
was
only
on
the
expressly
stipulated
condition
that
they
were
not
to
be
allowed
to
breed
in
the
direct
line
that
he
would
allow
one
to
leave
his
kennels.
But,
when
this
old
breed
was
taken
up
by
the
Sporting
Spaniel
Society,
they
decided
to
drop
the
name
of
"Norfolk,"
and
to
revert
to
the
old
title
of
"Springer,"
not,
perhaps,
a
very
happy
choice,
as
all
Spaniels
are,
properly
speaking,
Springers
in
contradistinction
to
Setters.
The
complete
official
designation
on
the
Kennel
Club's
register
is
"English
Springers
other
than
Clumbers,
Sussex,
and
Field,"
a
very
clumsy
name
for
a
breed.
There
is
no
doubt
that
this
variety
of
Spaniel
retains
more
resemblance
to
the
old
strains
which
belonged
to
our
forefathers,
before
the
long
and
low
idea
found
favour
in
the
eyes
of
exhibitors,
and
it
was
certainly
well
worth
preserving.
The
only
way
nowadays
by
which
uniformity
of
type
can
be
obtained
is
by
somebody
having
authority
drawing
up
a
standard
and
scale
of
points
for
breeders
to
go
by,
and
the
Sporting
Spaniel
Society
are
to
be
commended
for
having
done
this
for
the
breed
under
notice,
the
fruit
of
their
action
being
already
apparent
in
the
larger
and
more
uniform
classes
to
be
seen
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