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FORE-LEGS Of a moderate length, straight, with flat strong bone. BODY Strong, with well-sprung ribs, good girth, and chest deep and fairly broad. LOIN Rather long, strong, and slightly arched. HIND-QUARTERS AND HIND-LEGS Very muscular, hocks well let down, stifles moderately bent, and not twisted inwards or outwards. FEET Strong and compact.
EARS Comparatively small and gradually narrowing towards the tip, covered with feather not longer than the ear, set moderately low and hanging close to the cheeks. NECK Strong, muscular, clean in throat. SHOULDERS Long and sloping. FORE-LEGS Medium length, straight, good bone, moderately feathered. BODY Strong, fairly deep, not long, well-sprung ribs.
And when one of the cars from the hotel garage was ordered round to take them for a run, and they snuggled side by side on well-sprung cushions such as they would probably never ride upon again, they held hands and exclaimed under their breath: "This is fine, isn't it? I wish this could last for ever! Some day, when our ship comes in, we'll have this make of car."
So he stretched himself out on the well-sprung couch and yielded to the delight of it all. But the hour he had been free to dispose of thus was swiftly used up with his pleasant dreaming. And it was with a feeling of real irritation that he finally flung away his cigar and bestirred himself.
"I've really worked to make the American Merino," Dick was saying; "to give it the developed leg, the strong back, the well-sprung rib, and the stamina. The old-country breed lacked the stamina. It was too much hand-reared and manicured." "You're doing things, big things," Graham assured him. "Think of shipping rams to Idaho! That speaks for itself."
SHOULDERS Placed well back in the body, and fairly muscular, without being loaded. FORE-LEGS Perfectly straight, set well into the shoulders, with strong pasterns and toes set well up and close together. BODY Chest very deep, with fairly well-sprung ribs; muscular back and loins, and well cut up in the flanks.
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