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within, and graceful bushy tail, gave him the 

 appearance of a dog idealised and made beautiful ; 

 and he was to the rough brown or red common dog 

 what the finest human type — a model for a Phidias 

 or a Praxiteles — is to a Connemara peasant or a 

 Greenlander. 



