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the handsomest, and a white foot or feet and a little 

 white on the breast are no detriment. Mouse 

 coloured specimens are occasionally met, sometimes 

 with tan shadings, sometimes without. This is not 

 a desirable colour, and "wall" or "china eyes" 

 often accompany it. The dachshund is what may 

 be termed a whole coloured dog, at least, this is 

 what we have made him here since his adoption. 



White as the ground colour is as objectionable in 

 Germany as with U5, but on the continent a greater 

 variety of colour is allowed Herr Beckemann giving 

 the legitimate colours, dividing them into four groups 

 as follows : 



" First, black, chocolate, light brown (red), hare 

 pied, all with tan shadings. Secondly, the same 

 colour without the tan markings. Thirdly, slate, 

 mouse, silver grey, either whole coloured or with tan 

 marks ; eyes, blueish or colourless (wall eyed) ; and 

 fourthly, variegated, slate, mouse, silver grey with 

 irregular black, chocolate or tan marks and blotches, 

 with or without tan, and > with one or two ' wall eye^s/ 

 Any one of these colours is as good as another in 

 the Fatherland, but in case two dogs are of equal 

 merit in other respects, the black and tan is to be 

 preferred, or the dog most richly coloured and free 

 from white." 



As to the voice or cry of the dachshund. He is 



