442 Modern Dogs. 



With regard to this question of legs it must 

 be remembered that the work of the dog is to 

 hunt in front of the gun and flush game, but he 

 should never go faster than a trot. I have found 

 that if we get a dog with long legs, when he 

 gets the scent he is apt to go away too quickly and 

 flush his game out of shot This is annoying, and 

 the dog that will stick to his slow trot will keep on 

 all day, always giving a chance for the gun, and so 

 is much to be preferred. 



The body should be long, i.e., as long as possible 

 consistently with being well ribbed up. If the 

 latter point be obtained the body cannot be too long, 

 but I have seen dogs of such a length as to be next 

 to useless from a sportsman's point of view, and, 

 however handsome they might be, unless well ribbed 

 up, I should never award a prize to such a dog. 

 It is said that the body should be low ; this does not 

 mean low from the back to the ground, but that the 

 chest should be so deep and so heavily feathered 

 as to show very little daylight underneath. The 

 deeper the body and rounder the ribs the better. 

 The back should be straight. The hindquarters 

 are very powerful and heavily feathered, hocks set 

 on low, and when the dog is standing showing well 

 behind the body. 



When looking at the dog with a side point of view 



