The Basset-Hound. 501 



"As a result Bassets abroad are to be found 

 smooth in coat, wire-haired and rough, straight- 

 legged, half-crooked and full-crooked, and had we 

 imported and bred all the varieties together, my task 

 of describing them would have been somewhat 

 difficult. I am glad, however, to say that we have 

 stuck pretty closely to one strain in the smooths, 

 and am in hopes that the same will follow in the 

 Griffons, consequently in classifying them as we have 

 them, or had them in this country, for one of the 

 smooths has all but disappeared, I can name them as 

 the Basset Franyais, and the Basset Griffon, the 

 former being the smooth coated and the latter 

 rough. 



" In France every smooth-coated Basset is called 

 a Basset Fran9ais, whether it be big, little, straight- 

 legged or crooked, tricolour, lemon and white, or 

 any hound colour whatever. The two strains 

 which have been imported into this country are 

 those which combine size with lowness in front and 

 crook, tricolour or lemon and white markings, and, 

 what is more to the point, the true hound type of 

 those hounds from which they are descended. 

 These two strains are the Le Couteulx and The 

 Lane, originating respectively in the ' Artois ' and 

 ' Poitevin.' 



" The strain of the Le Couteulx hounds owes its 



