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to thank for the prevention of many a tragedy due 

 to uppish self-assertion. Black is their colour, and 

 taillessness their most intimate quality ; so-ne, we are 

 told, are born tailless, most are not ! Brown and 

 fawn Schips are common enough in Belgium, the 

 home of the race ; and we have now not infrequently 

 classes for them over here ; while whites, which arc 

 really fawns, exist, occurring in litters now and then 



SCHIPPERKE. 

 " Fandango ," owned by Dr. Freeman. 



from a throwing back to some distant ancestor, and are 

 really pretty dogs, though I confess the piquancy and 

 charm of the blacks, with their sharply-pricked, thin 

 ears, their rounded-off flank, hard, shiny coats, and 

 dense masses of mane and culotte, the Schip's distinctive 

 points, are to me lost in an " off-coloured " dog. Their 

 faults, as toys, are soft, silky coats, toyish or apple or 

 badly-shaped heads (that universal stumbling block), 



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