August, 1921 
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iear the estate called Walnut Grove, 
;he property of a Mr. George Law. 
Vlr. Law was kindness itself to the un- 
fortunate sailors and they, as a token 
)f their gratitude, presented him with 
i pair of Newfoundland puppies. Even- 
;ually these dogs became crossed with 
;he yellow or tan hound common in 
;hat section and gave us the Chesapeake 
Bay dog of today. 
However haphazard his origin was, 
his breeding has been and is now on 
a scientific basis. The Carroll Island 
Club’s records, which date back for over 
a hundred years, show that the Chesa- 
peake has been carefully bred. Today 
the complete record' of his breeding can 
be found in the files of the American 
Kennel Club, the Canadian Kennel Club, 
the American Field Stud Book and the 
American Chesapeake Club Stud Book. 
Now, having considered for a few mo- 
ments the origin of the breed, let us 
pass to a description of the dog him- 
self. 
T HE Chesapeake Bay dog is a strong, 
well set up animal weighing in the 
neighborhood of seventy pounds 
and varying in height from twenty- 
three to twenty-six inches. His color 
is a solid dead-grass, although a small 
white spot on the breast or toes is not 
objectionable. His coat is short and 
thick with a tendency to wave over the 
shoulders. Nowhere is it over one and 
one-half inches in length and it is al- 
ways accompanied by a dense woolly 
undercoat. The hair on flanks, legs 
and face is never over three-quarters 
of an inch in length. His head is broad 
and round with a medium stop nose, a 
trifle pointed but not sharp ; ears, small 
and well set up on the head ; eyes, 
large and mild and of a yellowish color. 
His neck is only moderately long and 
is very muscular. He has sloping shoul- 
ders with plenty of power and freedom 
of movement; a deep, wide chest, and 
a heavy, round barrel with a tendency 
to tucked-up flanks. The hind quarters 
are a trifle higher than the shoulders 
and equally strong. His legs are of 
medium length, heavy boned and mus- 
cular; feet large with well rounded toes. 
The straighter the legs are, the better. 
His tail varies in length from eleven 
to fifteen inches and is heavy at the 
base. A slight feathering on stern 
and tail is permissable. His disposi- 
tion is cheerful and his expression in- 
telligent. 
On the other hand, we have another 
Chesapeake type which is objectionable, 
that is, the short-haired, heavy-set, liver 
colored dog which does not at all rep- 
resent the true specimen. The liver 
color is especially objectionable when 
we remember that the Chesapeake is a 
duck retreiver and of necessity must 
blend in with the dead-grass colored 
surroundings enocuntered in our fall 
duck shooting. 
Why go to all the trouble of wear- 
ing khaki colored clothes and boots 
if you are to have a dog with you 
that does not blend in with his sur- 
roundings? Moreover, there is a mis- 
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