02 Modern Dogs. 



1. The /lead (value 15) should be of full size, but 

 by no means heavy. Brow pronounced, but not 

 high or sharp. There must be good length and 

 breadth, sufficient to give in the dog hound a girth 

 in front of the ears of fully i6in. The nose should 

 be long (4jin.) and wide with open nostrils. Ears set 

 on low and lying close to the cheek. 



2. The 7ieck (value 5) must be long and clean, 

 without the slightest throatiness. It should taper 

 nicely from the shoulders to the head, and the upper 

 outline should be slightly convex. 



3. The shoulders (value 10) should be long, and 

 well clothed with muscle without being heavy, 

 especially at the points. They must be well sloped, 

 and the true arm between the front and the elbow 

 must be long and muscular, but free from fat or 

 lumber, 



4. Chest and hack rihs (value 10). — The chest 

 should girth over 3oin. in a 24in. hound, and the 

 back ribs must be very deep. 



5. The hack and loin (value 10) must both be 

 very muscular, running into each other without any 

 contraction or "nipping" between them. The 

 couples must be wide even to raggedness, and there 

 should be the very slightest arch in the loin, so as to 

 be scarcely perceptible. 



6. The hind quarters (value 10) or propellers are 



