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very muscular, as may be expected, seeing the great 

 weight in front which they have to propel. 



" The tail is of considerable length and should be 

 carried gaily, though not so as to curl over the back. 



" Our most perfect Bassets of the present day are 

 undoubtedly Mr. Muirhead's Forester, Mrs. Ellis's 

 Paris, Xena, and Dr. Woodhead's Geraldine, and 

 I regret much that I have not their weights and 

 measurements. I shall, however, not be wrong in 

 giving those of my old Model, who, though rather 

 flat in skull and having badly hung ears, was other- 

 wise as perfect a specimen in other particulars as I 

 ever hope to see. 



" Measurements, &c., at seven and a half years of 

 age : Weight, 461b. ; height at shoulder, 12 inches ; 

 length from tip of nose to set on of tail, 32 inches ; 

 length of tail, 1 1^ inches ; girth of chest, 25 inches ; 

 girth of loin, 21 inches; girth of head, 17 inches; 

 girth of fore-arm, 6\ inches ; length of head from 

 tip of occiput to tip of nose, 9 inches ; girth of 

 muzzle at midway, 9^ inches ; length of ears from 

 tip to tip, 19 inches ; height from ground between 

 fore-feet 2f inches. 



" I think I have gone now pretty clearly through 

 the points of the Basset as far as his bodily points 

 are concerned, consequently there remain but his 

 coat and colouring. 



