70 Modern Dogs. 



Peterboro', or elsewhere. Such figures are not 

 required by a hound judge, many of whom actually 

 detest numerals when they are supposed to have 

 any bearing upon that animal which they deem to 

 be excellence itself, and far removed from any other 

 variety of the dog known to the civilised world. 

 The points are merely inserted here to give unifor- 

 mity to the volume, and not that the author believes 

 " points " are of use in judging a hound or any 

 other dog. 



