THE FIELD FROM THE ARCHIVES
O much has been written of late years for and against the spaniel as an aid to the gun, that the following remarks may be of interest to shooting men who are the sworn friends of one or other of the merry spaniel family. The modern spaniel may have faults, but spaniels as a class are certainly not the show-spoilt animals that some writers would have us believe. The majority of spaniels in this country are in a half-broken condition; they retrieve more or less correctly, are hard workers but they run in to shot and are not steady on fur. Many shooting men are satisfied with this class of work, and so it is common
