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"Colour.-Jet black.

A slight tinge of bronze, or a splash of white on chest and toes is not objectionable.

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Height and Weight.-Size and weight are very desirable so long as symmetry is maintained. A fair average height at the shoulder is 27 inches for a dog, and 25 inches for a bitch, and a fair average weight is 100lb. and 85lb. respectively.

"OTHER THAN BLACK.

"Should in all respects follow the black except in colour, which may be almost any so long as it disqualifies for the black class, but the colours most to be encouraged are bronze, and black and white, beauty in markings to be taken greatly into consideration.

"ADDENDA TO OTHER THAN BLACK.'

Dogs that have been entered in black classes. at shows, held under Kennel Club Rules, where classes are provided for dogs other than black' shall not be qualified to compete in other than black classes in future.

"Black dogs that have only white toes and white breasts, and white tip to tail, are to be exhibited in the classes provided for 'black.""

The club has not issued any numerical scale of

points, but these I should allow as follows:

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Weight of dog from 85lb. to 100lb.; of a bitch, 75lb. to 85lb.

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CHAPTER IV,

THE COLLIE OR SHEEP DOG.

ALTHOUGH the "Scoti often called, has for man. the favourite varieties of th admirers of fifty years ag expected him to have which he possesses at the

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with the sprightly fox terrier the distinction of being the favourite dog of the people of the latter part of the nineteenth century. The St. Bernard has his admirs, so has the foxhound, but as neither is so suitabi as a companion--the one on account of the size, the other for a variety of reasons, the collie and the fox rrier are likely to retain their good reputation for ma, years to come.

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