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should be round and compact, with the toes well 

 split up and the knuckles prominent. 



" From his formation the dog has a peculiar 

 heavy and constrained gait, appearing to walk with 

 short quick steps on the tip of his toes, his hind feet 

 not being lifted high, but appearing to skim the 

 ground, and running with the right shoulder rather 

 advanced, similar to the manner of a horse in 

 cantering. 



" 1 6. The most desirable size for the bulldog is 

 about 5olb. 



" 17. The coat should be fine in texture, short, 

 close, and smooth (hard only from its shortness and 

 closeness, not wiry). 



11 Its colour should be whole or smut (that is, a 

 whole colour with a black mask or muzzle). The 

 colour should be brilliant and pure of its sort. The 

 colours in their order of merit, if bright and pure, 

 are, first, whole colours and smuts viz., brindles, 

 reds, white, with their varieties, as whole fawns, 

 fallows, &c. ; second, pied and mixed colours." 



