| Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot - 1893 - 278 páginas
...sportsmen, " Let his legs be straight as arrows, his feet round and not too large, his chest deep and back broad, his head small, his neck thin, his tail thick and busby ; if he carries it well, so much the better."* Yet notwithstanding Beckford, than whom there... | |
| John George Wood - 1898 - 380 páginas
...has much to undergo, and should have strength proportioned to it. Let his legs be straight as arrows, his feet round and not too large ; his shoulders back...his head small ; his neck thin ; his tail thick and bushy ; if he carry it well, so much the better. Such hounds as are out at the elbows, and such as... | |
| Henry Anderson Bryden - 1903 - 430 páginas
...much to undergo, and should have strength proportioned to it. Let his legs be as straight as arrows; his feet round, and not too large; his shoulders back...his head small; his neck thin ; his tail thick and bushy ; if he carry it well, so much the better. Such hounds as are out at the elbows, and such as... | |
| Nimrod - 1903 - 532 páginas
...much to undergo, and should have strength proportioned to it. Let his legs te as straight as arrows ; his feet round, and not too large ; his shoulders...; his chest deep ; his back broad ; his head small ; Ms neck thin ; his tail thick and brushy, and if he carry it well, so much the better.' Now the hound... | |
| John Henry Walsh - 1906 - 392 páginas
...has much to undergo, and should have strength proportioned to it. Let his legs he straight as arrows, his feet round and not too large; his shoulders back; his breast rather w.dc than narrow; his chest deep ; his back broad : his head small ; his neck thin ; his tail thick... | |
| A. Croxton Smith - 1910 - 448 páginas
...Let his legs be straight as arrows, his feet round and not too large, his shoulders big, his Kreast rather, wide than narrow, his chest deep, his back"...brushy > if he carry it well so much the better." Whyte-Melville has said very much the same thing in his poem, " The King of the Kennel 'ij "On the... | |
| 666 páginas
...much to undergo, and should have strength proportioned to it : Let his legs be straight as arrows, his feet round and not too large, his shoulders back,...his head small, his neck thin, his tail thick and bushy, and if he carry it well so much the better." The speed of foxhounds has considerably quickened... | |
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