The Newfoundland Dog 591 



wanted if you have the other named essentials. He certainly should not 

 gain height by mere length of legs, but get it as the mastiff does by depth of 

 body and legs of suitable length to look neither low nor high on the leg. The 

 legs should be stout of bone and straight, with feet somewhat large, as befits 

 a water dog and not an animal which has to travel on hard roads or at speed. 

 The coat has a decidedly open appearance compared with most water dogs,^ 

 and has not much undercoat. Glossy black is decidedly preferable to the 

 rusty black one occasionally sees, the consensus of testimony from those 

 competent to give evidence being to the effect that the parti-coloured dog is 

 not a true Newfoundland, so far as being an island dog. Still, as the New- 

 foundland of England is altogether different from the old type, there is no 

 good reason why variety in colour also should not be permitted. 



