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not be allowed to play with them with impunity. 

 However careful and kindly small people are, they 

 cannot help being rough at times, and the injury 

 is soon done. Mrs. Scarlett also recommends two 

 meals daily, the first of puppy biscuits, and the 

 second of brown bread and gravy, fish, minced meat, 

 or porridge and milk. Boiled rice, too, I should 

 imagine would form a useful variant. 



The points as approved by the Italian Greyhound 

 Club are : 



GENERAL APPEARANCE. A miniature English 

 Greyhound, more slender in all proportions, and of 

 ideal elegance and grace in shape, symmetry, and 

 action. 



HEAD. Skull long, flat, and narrow. Muzzle very 

 fine. Nose dark in colour. Teeth level. Ears rose- 

 shaped, placed well back, soft, and delicate. Eyes 

 rather large, bright, and full of expression. 



BODY. Neck long and gracefully arched. 

 Shoulders long and sloping. Chest deep and narrow. 

 Back curved and drooping on the hindquarters. 



LEGS AND FEET. Forelegs straight, well set under 

 the shoulder ; fine pasterns, small, delicate bones. 

 Hindlegs, hocks well let down. Thighs muscular. 

 Feet, the long hare foot. 



TAIL. Rather long, fine, with low carriage. 



COAT. Skin fine and supple. Hair thin and 

 glossy like satin. 



COLOUR. Preferably self-coloured. The colour 

 most prized is golden fawn, but all shades of fawn 

 red, mouse, blue, cream, and white are recog- 

 nised ; and blacks, brindles, and pied are considered 

 less desirable. Black and Tan Terrier markings not 

 allowed. 



