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they have any specimens of it left, and in many cases, 

 several generations of the same families have kept them 

 on. In build they are low to the ground, with long 

 bodies, short legs, possessed of great strength and en- 

 durance, and certainly one of the most muscular breeds 

 of its size with which I am acquainted, their quaint, 

 dignified bearing, and deep bark are marked character- 

 istics. The following are the points of the breed, as 

 set out by me for publication, very many years since, 

 and I am not aware they have ever been altered: 

 Head apparently large in proportion to size, skull fairly 

 wide and covered with top-knot of silky, light hair, 

 muzzle deep and moderately broad, jaws of great 

 strength, teeth level, ears not thick or wide, and feath- 

 ered to a point, eyes dark hazel, very lustrous and in- 

 telligent (dark markings round the eyes very desirable 

 in Pepper Dandies), chest deep, forelegs as straight as 

 compatible with lowness, and, as well as in loins and 

 hindquarters, showing great bone and muscle, tail car- 

 ried rather gaily, weight under twenty-four pounds, 

 bitches under twenty-two pounds. Colours, pepper or 

 mustard. 



Skyes. Perhaps it will be in order here to mention 

 their fellow countrymen, the Skyes, also admirably 

 adapted as companions and house dogs, the main ad- 

 vantages Dandies can claim over them being, in carry- 

 ing' less coat, and being rather more active. Although 

 blacks, and fawns with black points, are occasionally 

 seen, the predominant colours of Skyes are, undoubt- 

 edly, various shades of grey, from light silver to dark 



