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in the eye, and short in the muzzle it is, exclaim, 
‘Ah! but I couldn’t g*et away from his beautiful 
front!’ Do forelegs and shoulders constitute the 
alpha and omega of a fox terrier? Not much! 
Give me the dog that as a whole comes nearer to 
the ideal set forth by the standard. Can Major 
Taylor tell us what standard he has had in mind 
when placing some of the field trial dogs high up 
in the scale of honor at dog shows ? He had formed 
ideas of his own. Type was one thing, and seeming 
ability to gallop, which any setter not deformed, 
should be able to do was another and ‘another’ got 
the verdict. 
“What are we to think of a judge who gives three 
money prizes to three dogs, each different in its 
general make-up? To he kind, I should say that 
the judge did not know what he did want, and that 
while recognizing the value of certain points he 
recognized them individually, and not as he should 
do collectively. One could scribble on this track till 
the end of your valuable paper, but I really do 
believe that some of our judges should be taught a 
realization of the importance of the duties they 
assume, and the power they have to make or mar 
a breed. Perhaps some judges may ask me what 
I would do with a class of dogs, none of which 
really came up to the standard of requirements, but 
were not bad enough to turn out of the ring. Beyond 
admitting that sometimes judges are misunderstood 
when they face such troublous condition, I will 
excuse myself.” 
From these quotations of more than a quarter 
of a century ago it will be observed that the standard 
