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both in width and depth. They should be set on high, so as to 
coincide with long upper thighs. 
The quarters should be muscular, but not heavily so; in this 
part, however, the deerhound is seldom overdone. The lower 
thighs should be well clothed with muscle, exhibiting a large 
“calf.” The legs, both before and behind, should be straight and 
bony, the pasterns being required to be large and strong. 
The feet are generally rather long than cat-like, but the latter 
formation is generally desired by the deerstalker. My own 
opinion, as in the greyhound, is against the very round foot, 
with extremely arched toes. There should be plenty of hair on 
them, in any case. ‘ 
The colours preferred by breeders are dark blue, fawn, grizzle, 
and brindled, especially the blue brindle in the order given above. 
There should be no white; but a small white star on the chest, or 
a white toe or two, should not be regarded as considerable defects. 
The fawn-coloured dog is preferred with dark brown tips to his 
ears, but many excellent strains are without this shade. The coat 
varies greatly in different strains, some having it as hard as in the 
wire-haired terrier, while in others it is intermediate between wool 
and silk, with a few hairs showing through. The body generally 
is clothed with this rough and almost shaggy coat, but there is no 
fringe on the legs and very little even on the tail. The jaws are 
furnished with a decided moustache, but the hair composing it 
should be so soft as to stand out in tufts, and not like a brush, as 
it is when the hair is hard, stiff, and wiry. 
The tail should be long and tapering, slightly curved, but with- 
out any corkscrew twist. 
JIL—THE IRISH GREYHOUND OR WOLF-DOG. 
This grand variety is now extinct, no one in the present day 
maintaining that he possesses a strain actually descended from the 
old stock. An attempt has, however, been made by several gentle- 
men to “resuscitate it,” which appears to me a most absurd one ; 
for whatever may be the result, the produce cannot be regarded as 
Trish deerhounds, but rather as a modern breed, to which any other 
name may be given except the one chosen for it. Of course the 
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