CHAPTER XV 



THE SILVER GREY RABBIT 



WE now come to a very interesting group in the Silvers, 

 of which I think the above named is the most popular, 

 and I believe my admiration for some I saw at a show 

 many years since, and which I think were sent by my 

 friend, Rev. D. G. Truss, who has long been known in 

 the fancy as a successful breeder, exhibitor and occasional 

 judge, was the means of bringing me back as an exhibitor. 



I need not tell most of my readers that this variety is 

 produced in three shades light, medium, and dark and 

 it is entirely a matter of taste which is taken up. 



For my own part, I greatly prefer the medium, but 

 can appreciate the qualities of the others. I should think 

 the light shade is the easiest to obtain, but to my mind they 

 never have the brightness and quality look of the others. 



The greatest difficulty is to obtain perfect evenness 

 of shading "from stem to stern/' and a specimen 

 possessing this quality, well shaped, with small, neat, 

 erect ears, will not be far out of the first three in a 

 general way. 



There is some difference of opinion amongst breeders 

 and judges about size, some saying they should be from 

 five to seven, others from eight to twelve, pounds in 



