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ably fine. Her class was apparent to the most 

 negligent observer, but she had important defects 

 of structure — being decidedly out at elbows and 

 over long and flat in body. It was her superb 

 class which enabled her to defeat a great many 

 setters which, according to a tape-line scoring, 

 might have outpointed her. 



But it is in comparing the work of dogs in the 

 field that the word is used in so many senses 

 which puzzle the amateur. Some men speak 

 of class when they have in mind nothing but 

 speed and range. Those, however, who are care- 

 ful about meanings employ the term to desig- 

 nate a high degree of ability in all the essentials 

 of performance. That is the only accurate 

 application. 



Coming to definitions, class means the ability 

 to do at high speed and with rapid accuracy what 

 the mediocre can do only with deliberation, slowly, 

 and under favorable circumstances. In addition 

 to this definition a strict judge might add that 

 class includes the doing naturally and with little 

 practice what an ordinary specimen can do only 

 as a result of severe education. 



Just why class in the field is attractive to most 

 men and especially to Americans is something 

 which is explained in the remark of the old fox- 

 hunter, who said, " I don't keer much for these 

 extry fast hounds, but I always feel a little better 



