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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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"There
is
among
judges,
I
find--with
all
respect
I
say
it--an
undue
regard
for
weight
and
what
is
called
strength,
also
for
grooming,
which
means
brushing
or
plucking
out
all
the
long
hair
to
gratify
the
judge.
One
might
as
well
judge
of
Sandow's
strength,
not
by
his
performances,
but
by
the
kind
of
wax
he
puts
on
his
moustache!
"The
West
Highland
Terrier
of
the
old
sort--I
do
not,
of
course,
speak
of
bench
dogs--earned
their
living
following
fox,
badger,
or
otter
wherever
these
went
underground,
between,
over,
or
under
rocks
that
no
man
could
get
at
to
move,
and
some
of
such
size
that
a
hundred
men
could
not
move
them.
(And
oh!
the
beauty
of
their
note
when
they
came
across
the
right
scent!)
I
want
my
readers
to
understand
this,
and
not
to
think
of
a
Highland
fox-cairn
as
if
it
were
an
English
fox-earth
dug
in
sand;
nor
of
badger
work
as
if
it
were
a
question
of
locating
the
badger
and
then
digging
him
out.
No;
the
badger
makes
his
home
amongst
rocks,
the
small
ones
perhaps
two
or
three
tons
in
weight,
and
probably
he
has
his
'hinner
end'
against
one
of
three
or
four
hundred
tons--no
digging
him
out--and,
moreover,
the
passages
between
the
rocks
must
be
taken
as
they
are;
no
scratching
them
a
little
wider.
So
if
your
dog's
ribs
are
a
trifle
too
big
he
may
crush
one
or
two
through
the
narrow
slit
and
then
stick.
He
will
never
be
able
to
pull
himself
back--at
least,
until
starvation
has
so
reduced
him
that
he
will
probably
be
unable,
if
set
free,
to
win
(as
we
say
in
Scotland)
his
way
back
to
the
open.
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