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It seems to be the general opinion, with which I agree, that pointers and spaniels are the most suitable dogs to keep, for they appear to work the cover and to stand the climate better than other breeds.
There was a time, my lord to save trouble and a long explanation- -there was a time when you liked Talbots better than spaniels; you understand me? Lord J. I have found it very difficult to understand you of late, Mr. Talbot. Talb. Yes, because you have used other people's understandings instead of your own. Be yourself, my lord.
After this frugal repast it needed an interval of prayers before supper. The country squire was a long-lived but not always an intellectual animal. He kept hawks of all kinds, and all sorts of hounds that ran buck, fox, hare, otter, and badger. His great hall was commonly strewn with marrow-bones, and full of hawks' perches, of hounds, spaniels, and terriers.
The Japanese Spaniel was certainly known in England half a century ago, and probably much earlier. Our seamen often brought them home as presents for their sweethearts. These early imported specimens were generally of the larger kind, and if they were bred from which is doubtful it was by crossing with the already long-established King Charles or Blenheim Spaniels.
He was a young man again, with the Prince, that Bourbon prince and hero whom he loved and honoured far above any of his own countrymen. "O, la folle entreprise du Prince de Conde," he sang, waving his hand above his head, while the spaniels barked loud and shrill, adding their clamour to his. He raved of battles and sieges.
Dancing with excitement, he waited between the clump and the hedge till the spaniels entered and bolted the rabbit; then he tore madly in close pursuit of the fleeing creature, and my chance of a shot was spoiled through the possibility of my hitting him instead of his quarry. By the riverside, his tricks were precisely similar.
The Count wore his rustling native dress; but two black cocker spaniels followed at his heels. This combination presented an odd mixture of English squire-archy and the daimyo of feudal Japan. On the crest of the hill above him rose the house, a tall Italianate mansion of grey stucco, softened by creepers, jessamine and climbing roses.
He even found a new hobby: the breeding of Cocker spaniels, and worked up an interest in the development of his daughter that ran easily with that of training his puppies.
He fought every other animal who dared to venture near the place, and many a naval dog bore the marks of Bob's teeth to his dying day. He even boarded strange ships lying alongside and carried on his campaign of frightfulness there. In fact he terrorised all the dogs in Portsmouth dockyard, including two spaniels belonging to the Admiral Superintendent.
The Newfoundland dog is very subject to this disease, to remedy which recourse must be had to the nitrate of silver. Spaniels have often a mangy inflammation of the edges of the ear. It seldom runs on to canker; but the hair comes off round the edges of the ear, accompanied by much heat and scurfiness of the skin.
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