THE CORRECT TYPE 17 



Facing your model, carry your eye down the fore- 

 legs, straight and strong as iron bars, their big, flat bone 

 buried in a wealth of shaggy hair, inside and out, right 

 down to the small, round feet with their thick, hard pads 

 and well-arched toes. Note how he stands on them, for 

 all his strength and apparent weight, as lightly as a cat, 

 with never a symptom of weakness at the pastern joints. 



Stand, now, a little distance off, and take a broad- 

 side view. Your first impression is one of sturdy square- 

 ness. From shoulder to rump the back slopes gently 

 upwards, the stoutness of the loin and the rounded 

 breadth of the muscular hindquarters counterbalanced by 

 the depth of brisket and the well-sprung ribs, where the 

 heart and breathing apparatus have ample room for play. 

 No symptom of the docked tail shows beneath the pro- 

 fuseness of coat, which smothers everything save the 

 clearly-defined angle of the hocks, set unusually low, but 

 not too close together. 



Next run your hands in fancy through the heavy coat, 

 and tell me how I shall best describe it. It is very 

 long, it is very harsh, it is not in the least curly, neither 

 is it in any degree straight. It is above all things 

 shaggy, and conveys an impression of growing profusely 

 all sorts of ways. Underneath it is immensely thick 

 and not so harsh in texture. You would judge it to be 

 extremely waterproof, and impervious to any weather 

 capable even of resisting the vagaries of our English 



climate. ' 



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