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hams straight, flat and muscular, and feathered well 

 with buff coloured hair, the hind quarters, altogether 

 square and active in make. The chest should be wide 

 when the dog is sitting on his haunches, and the head 

 held back and full; too wide a chest is apt to give a 

 waddling and slow gait. The chest ribs cannot be too 

 deep. The loins, for speed, should be long, moder- 

 ately wide, and the belly well tucked up. The tail should 

 be well covered with coarse hair, curling along the tops, 

 and hanging moderately, though bushy, from beneath ; 

 carried on a horizontal line with the back, not cocked 

 or curled. In the field, or excitement, carried low, stiff 

 and beating the hind legs. The coat should be rather 

 coarse, smooth or wavy, not curly, hair of moderate 

 length, on the upper parts of the body, the root half 

 tawny, the tip half deep sienna, a sort of blood red, but 

 never showing black on the ears, back, head, or tail. 

 The legs and under parts deep or pale tawny. White 

 should not appear anywhere except in the centre of the 

 forehead and the centre of the breast." 



It maybe interesting to some of my readers (amongst 

 whom I hope will be included fanciers of every breed, 

 as well as some who have been hitherto fanciers of no 

 breed at all) , if I set out here the show points of Setters, 

 taking them in their usual order, as " English," " Gor- 

 don," and " Irish." 



The English Setter. — The head should be long and 

 rather narrow, the skull slightly domed and not very 

 broad at base, muzzle long, square and clean, not too 

 pointed at end ; nose moderately large, with wide nos- 



