76 DOMESTICATED DOGS. 
in importing specimens by the score ; and Mr. Schuller, I believe, 
brought over fully two hundred dogs in that and the following 
year. Latterly, however, either from the breed not being gene- 
rally approved of, or from caprice, the market price has gone down, 
and a moderately good dog can be got for £5 or £10, He is now 
seldom seen in Rotten Row led by a lady, as was the fashion in 
187576, for it would be idle to attempt to keep one at heel there 
or elsewhere, such is the uncontrollable nature of his temperament. 
The following is the numerical value of the points of the 
dachshund :— 
VALUE VALUE 
Head, . ‘ : . Io Stern, . : ; . 10 
Jaws, . : . . 10 Coat, . : - 5 
Ears, eyes, and lips, 10 Colour, : : ‘ Io 
Neck and body, . : 15 Size and symmetry 5 
Legs and feet, . ; . 20 Quality, : : 5 
Total, . : - 100 
The head is long and slightly arched. Occiput wide and skull 
narrowing rapidly to the eyes. Head and neck connected in a 
snake-like form, with a very obtuse angle, and little or no occi- 
pital protuberance. Eyebrows low, and scarcely raised above the 
general line of face. 
The jaws are long and tapering to the nose, which is small 
and pointed, but cut off nearly square, not pig-jawed. The 
masseter muscles of the cheeks are very full, and being so, give 
the face an appearance of hollowness under the eyes which is not 
strictly present. Teeth level, strong, and even; skin covering the 
face tight and without wrinkle. 
Ears, Hyes, and Lips.—The ears are set on farther back than in 
any English dog, and, though high, by no means pricked. This 
position of the ear is very remarkable, and distinguishes the dachs- 
hund from all his congeners. In the hound, pointer, and setter 
the front edge of the ear approaches the eye, but in the dachshund 
it is opposite the junction of the head and neck, or a very little in 
advance of that point. The ear itself is large, but not so large in 
proportion as that of the bloodhound, being generally about three- 
fourths of the length of the head and face; sometimes, however, 
