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The carriage of tail must be low, but with a slight sweep in it. 

 It is of course raised when the dog is excited. 



The coat in length should nearly but nob quite touch the 

 ground, and should not completely conceal the shape. In texture 

 there should be an outer one of straight, coarse, but shiny hair, 

 parted naturally down the back. Beneath this is an under coat 

 of a soft and half- woolly nature, which keeps out water as well as 

 that of the otter-hound. On the head there is none of this wool, 

 and when wetted the coat adheres closely to the skin. Many 

 imported dogs have a very woolly outside coat, like that of Major 

 Irving's above described, but this is not liked in England. 



The colours most approved of are blue, black, or grizzle, after 

 which comes silver grey tipped with brown, and then fawn tipped 

 with brown. 



The symmetry of this dog is not usually very great, but it 

 should be criticised closely nevertheless. " Quilick," whose por- 

 trait accompanies this article, exhibits this point in a degree 

 scarcely up to the average. 



(B) THE PKICK-EARED SKYE. 



This variety has a much larger and squarer head, united with 

 a shorter body, being, in fact, little different in these proportions 

 from the Dandie, except that the head is even larger in proportion 

 than in that dog. With the exception of these variations and 

 that of his ears, the subject of my present article is like the pre- 

 vious one, and the points also are identical in value, the dif- 

 ferences in shape, &c, being as follows : — 



The head is larger, more square and Dandie-like than that of 

 the prick-eared dog. The coat covering it is not so long over the 

 eyes and brows, but the beard is somewhat more marked. The 

 eyes are rather smaller in proportion to the head. 



