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Koffee, and Mr. Faire of Mrs. Crusoe, both of which, I fancy, will be 

 found to differ considerably in measurement to the others. The 

 measurement should be taken with the dog standing square on a 

 table, with an upright stick and cross-piece at the shoulder, and for 

 length a foot rule along the side, with a crosspiece at back of the 

 hips, and one across front of chest. 



" There is another point on which I differ from Mr. Marples, if I 

 understand him aright, and that is, ' ears to drop nicely at the side 

 of the head.' This is rather vague. I go with him if he means they 

 must not be tulip ears, or carried back on the neck like a whippet's ; 

 but, if he means that they are to drop like a fox terrier's, fall like 

 those of a Dandie or a Bedlington, or be as Nnnn's Barren's are the 

 button ears of a bulldog I there join issue with him." 



Another gentleman, writing under the now de plume of "Eileen," 

 says : 



"I agree with Theo. Marples in nearly all particulars, especially 

 about the feet, yet how few judges think about them ; and as for 

 black toenails, that is usually considered a mere nothing. 



"The modern pug, in my opinion, ought to be like the pugs of 

 long ago, except for the cropped ears. There is no doubt that the 

 breed of days gone by was dark cream, or clear light fawn colour, 

 as described by ' Stonehenge,' decidedly not the smutty animals that 

 are to be seen so frequently at present. I should like to know if 

 Theo. Marples has ever seen a pug perfectly clear in colour and with 

 a black trace down the back. I find that when the trace is black 

 the coat is invariably smutty, and particularly about the chest. I 

 object to any smuttiness, and especially on the chest. The mask ought 

 to end abruptly under the chin, and there should not be the slightest 

 trace of black below that ; but I usually see a smutty chest when 

 there is a black trace. There certainly should be a decided line 

 darker than the coat, and when the pug is angry the line or trace 

 should stand up in a ridge. 



" With regard to the point system for pug judging, it would be very 

 desirable. ' Stonehenge ' gives fifteen for pure colour, ten for trace ; yet 

 how many judges take the trace as the sine qua non, and pass over all 

 other deficiencies for sake of a black line. The head ought to be the first 

 consideration ; then the colour, shape, feet, and tail. With regard to the 



