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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



ear have been rather prevalent amongst the 

 specimens on the show bench. 



If the ear is carried erect it is known as 

 a " tuhp " car, and this form also is objec- 



MRS. EDGAR WATERLOWS CH. NUTHURST 



DOCTOR (BORN 19011 



BY CH. IVEL DOCTOr; CH PRIWULA. 



tionable. Nevertheless, at the beginning 

 of the nineteenth century two out of ever\- 

 three dogs possessed ears of this description. 

 The neck should be moderate in length, 

 very thick, deep, muscular, and short, but 

 of sufficient length to allow it to be well 

 arched at the back, commencing at the 

 junction with the skull. There should 

 be plentv of loose, thick, and wrinkled 

 skin about tiie thmat, forming a dewlap 

 on each side from the lower jaw to the 

 chest. 



The chest should be very wide laterally, 

 round, prominent, and deep, making the 

 dog appear very broad and short-legged 

 in front. The shoulders should be broad, 

 the blades sloping considerably from the 

 body ; they should be deep, very powerful, 

 and muscular, and should be flat at the top 

 and play loosely from the chest. 



The brisket should be capacious, round, 

 and very deep from the top of the shoulder 

 to the lowest part, where it joins the chest, 



and be well let down between the forelegs. 

 It should be large in diameter, and round 

 behind the forelegs, neither flat-sided nor 

 sinking, which it will not do provided 

 that the first and succeeding ribs are well 

 rounded. The belly should be well tucked 

 up and not pendulous, a small narrow 

 waist being greatly admired. The desired 

 object in bodv formation is to obtain great 

 girth at the brisket, and the smallest 

 jiossible around the waist, that is, the 

 loins should be arched very high, when the 

 dog is said to have a good " cut-up." 



The back should be short and strong, 

 \-ery broad at the shoulder and com- 

 paratively narrow at the loins. The back 

 should rise behind the shoulders in a grace- 

 ful curve to the loins, the top of which 

 should be higher than the top of the 

 shoulders, thence cur\-ing again more sud- 

 denly to the tail, forming an arch known 

 as the "roach" back, which is essentially 

 a characteristic of the breed, though, un- 

 fortunately, many leading prize-winners of 

 the present day are entirely deficient in 



MR. L. CRABTREES CH. BOOMERANG 



(BORN 1893) BY KING ORRY MILDURA. 



rholLieinph by llcdncs, Lytham. 



this respect. Some dogs dip very con- 

 siderably some distance behind the shoulders 

 before the upward curve of the spine begins, 

 and these are known as " swamp-backed " ; 



