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meeting level together, are also to be desired. As to the eye, it 
should be keen, bright, and of moderate size, the colour varying 
according to that of the coat. The ears are now always falling, 
small in size, thin and soft in texture. Formerly several good 
strains were noted for prick ears, but such a formation is now 
extremely rare, and as no fashionable strain exhibits it, breeders 
ignore it altogether. The last strain of note in which the prick 
ear was shown was that of Dr. Brown, the celebrated Scotch owner 
of “ Heather Jock,” “ Rufus,” &c. 
The neck, like the head, has been compared to that of another 
animal, but here a bird was selected, the choice falling on the 
long, smooth, and rounded neck of the drake. The resemblance 
is not very striking, as the greyhound never displays anything 
approaching to such a formation; and, indeed, with the exception 
of the camelopard, there is no well-known quadruped whose neck 
is at all like that of the drake. Very little, therefore, is learnt by 
this simile; and all that can be said is, that in a well-formed grey- 
hound the neck should be long, thin, and rounded towards its 
junction with the head, as compared with tts fellows ; but to expect 
in reality a drake’s neck is out of the question. The length should 
be as nearly as may be the same as that of the head, but it is 
difficult to measure either to half an inch; two persons seldom 
agree as to the exact point of demarcation between the head and 
neck, and there is still greater difficulty in defining the point of 
junction of the neck with the shoulders. 
The chest, shoulders, and forelegs must be considered together, as 
they are all dependent on one another for their respective actions. 
The chest must have a sufficient volume to contain the lungs and 
heart in full development, since these organs are required for 
staying power; but this volume must be obtained in depth rather 
than in width, because a very wide chest impedes the play of the 
shoulders on the thereby necessarily rounded ribs, and makes the 
gallop short, and the power of turning limited and slow. Hence 
the breeder selects his sires and dams with the chest of this forma- 
tion, that is to say, moderately wide and deep, without being so 
keel-shaped as to strike any slightly prominent part of the ground, 
such ag a large stone or heavy, rounded, and hard clod of earth. 
The shoulder, arm, and leg constitute what is called the Jore- 
