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should be round and very com- 

 pact. The shoulders and also 

 the back must slope towards 

 the short and pointed tail, 

 whereas the hind cjuarters must 

 be robust and muscular. The 

 head should be broad between 

 the ears and the muzzle long. 

 The color of the body is white 

 and liver colored, or lemon-yel- 

 low and white, or white flecked 

 with black. ]5ut the essential 

 thing is a respectable geneal- 

 ogy, which all competing dogs 

 of renown possess. 



With the pointer we may 

 name the retriever, an Enghsh 

 race of which two \-arieties 

 exist, — the long haired and 

 the frizzled or crinkled haired. 

 They have in them the blood 



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of the setter and the Newfoundland. The friz- 

 zled retriever shows traces of the blood of the 

 water spaniel. His hair is black, and the head 

 is long, with strong jaws by which to carry 

 heavy game. His business is to recover, or " re- 

 trieve," the game that the sportsman has shot, 

 T/ic Brussels griffon. This is a very pretty 

 dog and much in demand. He became known 

 to fanciers about forty years ago, and he made 

 his first appearance on exhibition at Brussels in 

 1880. The specimens then exhibited were sold 

 in England, but their descendants remained in 



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Brussels, and the race is now carelully 

 kept up, thanks to the Club of Brussels 

 Griffons, founded in 1S89. They ma\- 

 be regarded as a dwarf form of the 

 rattler (pinchers). They are intelligent 

 dogs and very lively, and their eyes 

 have an almost human expression. The 

 apple-shaped head is co\-ered with stiff 

 hair, which is longer about the eyes and 

 jaws than elsewhere. The black e\elids 

 bring out the brilliancy of the e)-es. The 

 lips ought always to be black, while 

 the rest of the body is reddish bmwn; 



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