62 ALL ABOUT DOGS 



making the awards for the sporting and non-sporting 

 teams, it has been a great pleasure to me to see 

 grouped together, in different parts of an immense 

 ring, teams of the various breeds, often containing 

 the best known specimens of them, quite priceless, and 

 which no money could buy, but most interesting to the 

 lovers of beautiful, and in many cases, perfect speci- 

 mens of animals. 



Show Points of Wavy, Flat, or Smooth Retrievers. — 

 Head long and skull fairly wide ; ears small and lying 

 close to head ; eyes brown or hazel and showing great 

 intelligence; jaws long, and sufficiently strong to carry 

 a Hare; muzzle fairly large, with full open nostrils; 

 teeth level and sound ; neck fairly long ; chest deep and 

 somewhat narrow; shoulders clean and strong, set 

 obliquely ; ribs deep, and well sprung ; body long, with 

 muscular loins; forelegs straight and strong; quar- 

 ters muscular ; stifles fairly bent ; feet sound, and well 

 arched ; coat long, and straight, and of good quality ; 

 black, without any trace of white, is the fashionable 

 colour, but classes for " other than black," are some- 

 times well filled. White and liver coloured specimens 

 are sometimes met with, but seldom shown. General 

 appearance is that of a strong, upstanding, intelligent 

 dog, of a decidedly sporting character, but quite pre- 

 pared to take on any class of work required of him as 

 a " general utility dog." 



The Curly-coated Retriever. — There has been much 

 discussion as to the origin of this variety, which, like 



