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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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Among
toy
dogs
this
particular
breed
has
enjoyed
an
unprecedented
popularity;
the
growth
in
the
public
favour
among
all
classes
has
been
gradual
and
permanent
during
the
last
fifteen
years,
and
there
are
no
signs
that
it
is
losing
its
hold
on
the
love
and
affection
of
a
large
section
of
the
English
people.
His
handsome
appearance,
his
activity,
and
hardihood,
his
devotedness
to
his
owner,
his
usefulness
as
a
housedog,
and
his
many
other
admirable
qualities
will
always
make
the
Pomeranian
a
favourite
both
in
the
cottage
and
in
the
palace.
CHAPTER
XLIV
THE
KING
CHARLES
SPANIELS
In
the
fourth
chapter
of
Macaulay's
History
of
England
we
read
of
King
Charles
II.
that
"he
might
be
seen
before
the
dew
was
off
the
grass
in
St.
James's
Park,
striding
among
the
trees
playing
with
his
Spaniels
and
flinging
corn
to
his
ducks,
and
these
exhibitions
endeared
him
to
the
common
people,
who
always
like
to
see
the
great
unbend."
Queen
Elizabeth's
physician,
Dr.
Caius,
described
these
little
Spaniels
as
"delicate,
neate,
and
pretty
kind
of
dogges,
called
the
Spaniel
gentle
or
the
comforter,"
and
further
said:
"These
dogges
are
little,
pretty,
proper,
and
fyne,
and
sought
for
to
satisfie
the
delicatenesse
of
daintie
dames
and
wanton
women's
wills,
instruments
of
folly
for
them
to
play
and
dally
withall,
to
tryfle
away
the
treasure
of
time,
to
withdraw
their
mindes
from
their
commendable
exercises.
These
puppies
the
smaller
they
be,
the
more
pleasure
they
provoke
as
more
meete
playfellowes
for
minsing
mistrisses
to
beare
in
their
bosoms,
to
keepe
company
withall
in
their
chambers,
to
succour
with
sleepe
in
bed,
and
nourishe
with
meate
at
board,
to
lie
in
their
lappes,
and
licke
their
lippes
as
they
ryde
in
their
waggons,
and
good
reason
it
should
be
so,
for
coursenesse
with
fynenesse
hath
no
fellowship,
but
featnesse
with
neatnesse
hath
neighbourhood
enough."
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