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Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934 Subjects: Dogs Publisher: London New York : Cassell Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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Text Appearing Before Image: ,neither turned inwards nor outwards. Leg—Fore-arm muscular and the whole leg strong and quitestraight. 9. Hindquarters.—Muscular thighs, and secondthigh long and strong as in the Greyhound, andhocks well let down and turning neither in norout. 10. Feet.—Moderately large and round, neitherturned inwards nor outwards ; toes well archedand closed, nails very strong and curved. 11. Hair.—Rough and hard on body, legs, andhead ; especially wiry and long over eyes andunder jaw. 12. Colour and Markings.—The recognisedcolours are grey, brindle, red, black, pure white,fawn, or any colour that appears in the Deer-hound. Faults.—Too light or heavy in head, too highlyarched frontal bone, large ears and hangingflat to the face ; short neck ; full dewlap ; toonarrow or too broad a chest ; sunken and hollowor quite level back ; bent forelegs ; overbentfetlocks ; twisted feet; spreading toes ; too curlya tail ; weak hindquarters, cow hocks, and ageneral want of muscle ; too short in body.

Text Appearing After Image: BRIAN BORU: the Irish guards wolfhound. Photograph 6j Pictorial Agency. 168 CHAPTER XVI. THE DEERHOUND. BY ROBERT LEIGHTON. A chieftains, in good truth, this dog was once.And if in form and action he remainedWhat he then was when first Odyssens left,His swiftness and his strength would well have rousedThy wonder at his hunting : never gameEscaped him in the thickest woodland glade :Whatever he might follow, by their trailHe knew them all most thoroughly. —Cordreys Odyssey. THE Deerhound is one of the mostdecorative of dogs, impressivelystately and picturesque wherever heis seen, whether it be amid the surround-ings of the baronial hall, reclining at luxu-rious length before the open hearth in thefitful light of the log fire that flickers onpolished armour and tarnished tapestry ;out in the open, straining at the leash as hescents the dewy air, or gracefully boundingover the purple of his native hills. Graceand majesty are in his every movement andattitude, and even to the most prosa

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