488 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 
4. Judical Awards. 
1. Over extreme weight to be handicapped 5 points per Ib. of 
excess. 
2. Over or under shot mouth to disqualify. 
3. Doctored ears or tail to disqualify. 
4. No extra value for greater length of coat than 54 inches. 
Not to be commended under a total of 60. 
y Not to be highly commended » 65. 
“\ Not to be very highly commended,, —_70. 
No specials to be given » 75+ 
Many authorities, living and dead, have been consulted in the 
preparation of this document, but the final arbitration on every 
point has been submitted to the esteemed convener of committee, 
Councillor Cunningham, so that all may be taken as the mature 
fruit of his lengthened study and extensive experience, the duty of 
the secretary having been to gather everything together, and to 
put the whole into form and order. Although the description and 
standard are perhaps as exhaustive as it is possible, or at least 
desirable, to make them, they by no means exhaust the sphere or 
duty of either breeder or judge. The type, character, expression, 
build, form, substance, and style, with other qualities, of the 
various specimens leave ample scope for skill and discrimination 
by the one, and for selection and assortment by the other. It is, 
however, the sanguine hope of the club that, so far as they go, 
they may tend to bring the sentiments of breeders into greater 
harmony, and the awards of judges into greater uniformity. 
Since the preceding was compiled, the following portions of an 
old Scottish doggerel, handed down from sire to son, have been 
furnished, in modernised dialect, by a member of the club, and 
seem to find here an appropriate place, and to form an appropriate 
close. The original version consisted of four stanzas, but the 
third has gone from the memory of the contributor beyond recall. - 
Perhaps some antiquarian resurrectionist may be able to disinter 
it and supply the lacking limb :— 
Let your Skye stand nine“inches at shoulder, 
Be twice and a half that in length, 
With a tail the extent that his height is, 
