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colour when from six months to a year old. These dogs 

 should only be washed when necessary, and then sulpholine 

 soap used ; when they are required for exhibition it is 

 necessary to cultivate their coat with a little special 

 dressing lotion. Their colour becomes lighter with age, and 

 the hair continues to grow till they are eighteen months; I 

 have had them when the hair has grown till they have been 

 three years old. The following is a dressing which some 

 people dress them with once a week, but I have never tried 

 it : Equal parts kerosene, cocoanut, and olive oils; but care 

 must be taken that they should not catch cold, for oily 

 mixtures are apt to make dogs chilly. 



The Truffle Dog 



is a small species of poodle, and in colour white, or black 

 and white, or black. He is very intelligent, possesses a 

 keen sense of scent, and is mute in his work. A truffie 

 dog must be broken from all game ; he digs like a terrier 

 at a rat's hole for truffles. 



The Whippet 



According to Dr. G. Stables this breed ' is a kind of 

 small greyhound with a little terrier blood in him, and is 

 used for running races.' 



Wolfhound (Ir-ish) 



This dog is in appearance something approaching the 

 Scotch deerhound, only much larger, and, according to 

 Captain Graham's description to Dr. Gordon Stables, he 

 should be more massive and majestic-looking than a Scotch 

 deerhound, with hard, long, and shaggy coat, though softer 

 and longer on the head ; the ears small in proportion to the 

 size of the head, and half erect ; the colour black, grey, 

 red, brindle, and fawn. Their claaracter, ' trusty, true, and 

 brave.' 



