A Suggestion. 



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make an attempt to breed him to colour, for bright orange 

 or red with the snowy circle round his neck, a white 

 breast and a tip of white at the end of his brush, no dog 

 would look handsomer. As he is, his less bright colours 

 are not sufficiently attractive to the eye, and modern fancy 

 just now runs in a craze for gaudiness. Nor have poets 

 sung of his merits, nor distinguished painters immortalised 

 him on their canvases. 



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