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PASTORAL DOGS, ETC. 



want of compactness, especially about the loins, which are long 

 and very flexible. The head is not large in comparison to the size, 

 but wide across the eyes ; muzzle of average length and width, 

 and without any flews, as in the hounds and pointers ; eye and ear 

 both small, the latter falling, and without much hair on it; neck 

 short and clot'.ea with a ruff of hair ; tail long, curled on itself 

 slightly, and woolly ; legs very strong, but not feathered ; feet 

 large and rather flat, bearing the road badly ; coat on the body 



Fig. 25. NEWFOUNDLAND DOG, LEO. 



long, hairy, shaggy, and shining, without any admixture of wool; 

 the color should be black, but it is sometimes black and white, or 

 white with little black, or liver color, or a reddish dun, or some 

 times, but rarely, a dark brindle not very well marked. 



The large black Newfoundland is remarkable for his majestic 

 appearance, combined with a benevolent expression of counte- 

 nance. The latter quality, being really in accordance with his dis- 

 position, and frequently displayed by his life-saving capacities in 

 cases of threatened drowning, has made him for many years a great 



