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next make him love you; yon will never regret having 

 gained his love and confidence, and the day may come when 

 you will be repaid an hundred fold. The nearest that a 

 cloud ever came to my roof-tree resulted from an episode 

 that would never have happened had my glorious old 

 Gipsey, her sons Lion or Hector, De Buch or Ginger, been 

 at home. 



I give the standard set forth by the original Mastiff Club 

 of England, in preference to that prepared by the present 

 Old English Mastiff Club, as it is simpler, being free from 

 much technicality, and therefore more readily compre- 

 hended by a layman. In all essentials the two are sub- 

 stantially the same. 



POINTS OF THE ENGLISH MASTIFF. 

 HEAD. 



General. Very massive and short, with great breadth 

 and depth of skull, and squareness of muzzle. Expression 

 lowering. 



Forehead. Broad, fiat, and wrinkled; eyebrows heavy, 

 with a broad stop extending well into the forehead. 



Gfafifo. Full 



Eyes. Wide apart, small, and sunken; dark-brown in 

 color. 



Muzzle. Short, truncated, deep and broad, not tapering 

 toward the nose; jaws very wide; line of profile from stop 

 level, not drooping toward the nose (i. e., not Hound-muz- 

 zled); black in color. 



Nose. Large; nostrils large, and a well-marked line 

 between. 



Lips. Thick and pendulous; they should fall forward 

 (not hang at the corners of the mouth as in the Blood- 

 hound). 



Teeth. Large, undershot or level. 



Ears. Small, pendent or semi-erect, not placed so low 

 as in the Hound; the darker the color the better. 



