60 DOMESTICATED DOGS. 
The neck is thinner and less round. than that of the foxhound, 
but except in the case of the Welsh harrier no “throatiness” is 
permitted. Still there is not the greyhound-like tightness so dear 
to the eye of the M.F.H. os % 
In the shoulders, chest, back, ribs, and loin no variation is 
visible, but the quarters are seldom so full and wide as-those of 
its rival. y : a 
The elbows are required to be straight, as indeed is thé case with 
all animals kept for work. ; ee BP) ly 
The legs and feet. should, as far as possible,‘resemble those of thé 
foxhound, but it is seldom that they are exhibited so extremely 
straight as I have described the model pasterns of the M.F.H. I 
need scarcely remark that my opinions on this point-are the same 
with regard to the legs of the two breeds. As to feet, there are 
no two opinions on these in either breed. oie ai 
The colours most in demand for the harrier are black, white, and 
tan, commonly called “the true hound colours,” but all thg- pies 
are met with nearly to the same extent. The coat is generally 
slightly softer than that of the foxhound, and on the stern a little 
more fringed. . . 
The stern is carried, as in the foxhound, gaily over the back, and 
has a similar root and tip. a 
“In symmetry the foxhound has a slight advantage, from the 
extra care and expense which have so long been devoted to: breed- 
ing him. 
The illustrations show the harrier as pure as it can be met with, 
and also the foxhound as used for hare-hunting. 
In size most harrier packs are under 20 inches, and “many are 
aslowas 16 inches. 7 
The rough Welsh harrier resembles the otter-hound (to be pre- 
sently described) so closely, that I have only to refer my readers 
to the latter." 
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VI—THE BEAGLE. 
Any English hound less than 16 inches in height is in ordinary 
language called a beagle, but in reality there is as great a differ- 
ence between a dwarf harrier or foxhound and a true beagle as 
between a bloodhound and a foxhound. The true beagle is a 
