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peaceable to a fault. ' I fancy that Russian breeding tends 

 to develop the savagery in the breed, while English breed- 

 ing will draw out the gentle, peaceable traits generally 

 characteristic of all English breeds of dogs. The pictures 

 of Czar and Elsie fairly represent, in a general way, one 

 type of the breed, one that might be called the Setter- 

 Greyhound type; Czar's being a good likeness of the dog, 

 while Elsie's shows much more bone, and less muscle in 



RUSSIAN WOLFHOUND-ELSIE. 

 Owned by Mr. J. Otis Fellows, Hornellsville, N. Y. 



quarters than she really has. Neither picture does justice 

 to the coats; Czar's being much smoother, with the com- 

 monest grooming, and Elsie's being scant on account of 

 low condition. Czar is a powerful, well-made dog, about 

 twenty-nine or thirty inches at the shoulder, but hardly as 

 long in back as other specimens I have seen; in which 

 point Elsie shows an extreme development, and an undesir- 

 able one. Czar was selected at the Jardin d' Acclimation as 

 an unusually fine specimen; and Elsie was selected by Mr. 

 F. Freeman Lloyd, in England, as the most promising 



