58 DOMESTICATED IIUXTIXG-DOGS. 



Tacies non omnibus una, 

 Nee diversa tamen, qualein deeet esse sororuni.' 



" If handsome without they are then perfect. With regard to 

 tlieir being sizeable, what Somerville says is so much in your own 

 way that I shall send it you : 



' As some brave captain, curious and exact, 

 By his fix.'d standard, forms in equal ranl\S 

 His gay battalion : as one man they move, 

 Step after step ; their size the same, their arms, 

 Far gleaming, dart the same united blaze ; 

 Eeviewing generals liis nierit own ; 

 How regular ! how just ! And all his cares 

 Are well repaid if mighty Gkorge approve : 

 So model thou thy pack, if honour touch 

 Thy geu'rous soul, and the world's just applause.' 



" There are necessary points in the shape of a hound which 

 ought always to be attended to by a sportsman, for if he be not of 

 a perfect symmetry he will neither run fast nor bear much work. 

 He has much to undergo, and should have strength proportioned 

 to it. Let his legs be straight as arroirs, his feet round and not 

 too large ; his shoulders hack ; liis breast rather wide than nar- 

 row ; his ehcst deep; his baek broad; his head small; his neck 

 thin ; his tail thick and brushy, if he carry it well so much the 

 better. Such hounds as are out at the elbows, and such as are 

 weak from the knees to the foot, should never be taken into the 

 pack. 



" I find that I have mentioned a small head as one of the neces- 



