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...Cocker and Springer Spaniels make excellent dogs for pheasant. Rather than point game, most spaniels flush it, often leaping spectacularly into the air in an effort to catch birds on the wing. Waterfowl hunters occasionally use water spaniels, but generally take their choice of the three retrieving specialists: the Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever or Chesapeake Bay Retriever...
...Albert Peasemarch, butler to Sir Raymond, who has "about as much brain as you could comfortably put in an aspirin bottle," but whose skill in giving her cocker spaniel an emetic awakens the love of Sir Raymond's sister Phoebe...
Polly Want a Cocker? In Akron, Hyman Friedman admitted in court that his dogs often run into a neighbor's backyard, but "only because my neighbor's parrot keeps whistling to them to come over...
Lowell spoke to the Class Day audience about his dead cocker spaniel, Phantom. "He was a good old dog," Lowell said, speaking softly, almost to himself. "He was better known around here than I was.... I guess he loved Harvard as much as I did, and he was about as useful...
Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Flood Byrd, 70, spent most of one afternoon last week at his cluttered desk, writing a statement in painstaking longhand. Writing done, he reread it, handed it to an aide, slipped out of his office with his black cocker spaniel, Happy, frisking at his heels, and took off that night for a Tucson hideaway. What he had written made headlines next morning: after 43 years in public office, Harry Byrd, chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee and the nation's most dedicated fighter for pay-as-you-go fiscal conservatism, had decided...