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as if lying in a fold, set: well back and low on the head; 
they should never be set high, short in length, or half 
diamond-shaped ; their feather should be moderate. The 
eye is of a rich hazel or bright brown, well set, full, kind, 
sensible, and loving, the iris mahogany-colour ; it should 
be gooseberry, black, or prominent and staring, like the 
King Charles. The nose is mahogany, dark flesh, or 
blackish mahogany, never black or pink. Even dark 
flesh is not so much admired, though, with a good clear 
eye, I like it; but with the gooseberry eye you indeed 
have a rare brute. My old dog has a dark flesh-colour 
nose, unlike any of his kind, yet none ‘of his pups got 
it, all having dark mahogany ; ; the whiskers red; the 
head itself long and narrow, yet wide in the forehead, 
arched in the peaked cranium behind. A short bullet 
head, a wide flat one, or one running to a point at the 
snout, is very common and very bad; the lips deep or 
moderately so. : The chest should be wide when the dog 
is sitting on his haunches and the head held back. Too 
wide a chest is apt to give a dog a waddle and slow gait. 
The chest ribs cannot be too deep. The loins for speed 
should be long, moderately wide, and the belly well tucked 
up. The fore-legs straight, moderately feathered, and the 
feet close and small, not round like a hound’s, or splayed. 
The ham straight, flat, and muscular, and feathered well 
with buff-coloured hair, and the hind quarters altogether 
square and active made. The tail should be well covered 
with coarse hair curling along the tip, and hanging mode- 
rately, though bushy from beneath, but not in silken’ 
streamers, or in a great bushy flag like a Newfoundland. 
It should be carried in a horizontal line with the back, or 
slightly above it, not cocked or curled. In the field or in 
excitement, I like it carried low, stiff, and beating the hind 
legs.” As in the case of the Gordon setter, there is no 
difference in the foznfs from those of the English variety. 
Field Spaniels are divided into two principal groups, 
the Springers, or larger variety, used for all sorts of covert 
game, and the Cockers, kept more especially for wood- 
cocks, to follow which they must be of smaller size. The 
springer is again subdivided into the Clumber, Sussex, 
