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after which it turns away from them and curves more or less 

 upwards, sometimes forming a full circle, but generally less than 

 three-fourths. These points are only regarded as indications of a 

 good breed. 



The colour and coat are of so little importance as to be 

 together only valued as equal to the tail, which is a higher indi- 

 cation of breeding than either of those points now under con- 

 sideration. Whole colours are generally preferred, as being more 

 pleasing to the eye, and not interfering with the apparent shape ; 

 but the preference is seldom to such an extent as to cause the 

 rejection of a well-made puppy because of its markings. In the 

 present day, white, more or less marked with black or blue, 

 is very often met with on account of the' successes of Mr. 

 Campbell's "Scotland Yet," which celebrated bitch produced 

 " Canaradzo," " Sea Foam," and " Sea Pink," and was grandam 

 of " King Death," all white, or very nearly so, besides in a more 

 remote degree scores of other winners of a similar colour. For 

 many years previously the prevailing colours were black, red, 

 fawn, brindled or blue, with a small admixture of white, but 

 since then the last-named colour has taken its full share of the 

 honours of each year. Brindle is, however, somewhat at a dis- 

 count, in spite of the successes of " Patent " (a celebrated 

 brindled sire) and his descendants ; but still no one dreams of 

 discarding a brindled puppy from his kennel simply for his 

 colour. It has sometimes been alleged that the brindled grey- 

 hound owes his colour to a descent from the bulldog, but there 

 is not the slightest reason for this opinion ; indeed, the reverse is 

 rather to be held, since in those cases where a bulldog cross is 

 known to have been used, as in Sir James Boswell's " Jason," 

 Mr. Loder's "Czar," and Mr. Hanley's dogs, which are fully 

 described in Book II, Chapter I., under " Crossed Breeds," the 



