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Elbows square. Pasterns upright. Feet large and 

 round. Toes well arched up. Nails black. 



11 Back, Loins, and Flanks (Value 8). Back and 

 loins wide and muscular; flat and very wide in a 

 bitch, slightly arched in a dog. Great depth of 

 flanks. 



" Hind Legs and Feet (Value 10). Hind-quarters 

 broad, wide and muscular, with well developed 

 second thighs, hocks bent, wide apart, and quite 

 squarely set when standing or walking. Feet round. 



" Tail (Value 3). Put on high up, and reaching 

 to the hocks, or a little below them, wide at its root 

 and tapering to the end, hanging straight in repose, 

 but forming a curve, with the end pointing upwards, 

 but not over the back, when the dog is excited. 



" Coat. Colour (Value 5). Coat short and close 

 lying, but not too fine over the shoulders, neck, and 

 back. Colour, apricot or silver-fawn, or dark fawn- 

 brindle. In any case, muzzle, ears, and nose should 

 be black, with black round the orbits, and extending 

 upwards between them." 



The executive of the Mastiff Club have not in 

 their description issued any numerical scale of 

 points, evidently believing as so many others do 

 the uselessness of figures in arriving at the good, or 

 bad, or indifferent qualities of any dog. However, 

 there are some individuals who would apply figures 



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