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ill hounds as in horses. The neck is too short and 

 throaty, the shoulders upright and loaded ; also a 

 want of muscle in the arm and forelegs, and the 

 most common fault in the make of hounds not 

 being straight below the knee. No. 2 is not only 

 crooked there, but much too long from the knee to 

 the foot ; which is also long and flat, instead of 

 being short and round hke a cat's foot. The same 

 faults with the hinder-legs, too great length from 

 the foot to the hock, instead of the length being 

 from the hock upwards to the hip, — a great point 

 in hounds and horses, and a criterion of strength 

 for speed : for instance, compare it with a hare. 

 No. 2. also shows weakness in the hock itself, 

 which is small instead of large, and also a falling off 

 in muscle in the haunches or gaskins, which should 

 be wide and full, hke a hare trussed for the spit ; 

 the loins are also weak, and would be called slack 

 in the loins. It is also flat-sided, not deep enough 

 in the ribs, consequently the frame is not large 

 enough to give the lungs free play, and it could not 

 possibly be a good- winded hound. But to judge of 

 the frame of a hound, its head should be between 

 the person's knees, in order that he may see the 

 width of ribs behind the shoulders, where most 

 hounds fall off", though this is not observed by the 



