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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: tawny, nor absolutely black or white, which is not a sign of breeding,
but monotonous--a simplicity suggestive of the wild animal.[24]
Accordingly the red dog should show a bloom of white hair about the
muzzle, and so should the black, the white commonly showing red. On
the top of the thigh the hair should be straight and thick, as also on
the loins and on the lower portion of the stern, but of a moderate
thickness only on the upper parts.
[23] See Stonehenge, p. 25; Darwin, op. cit. ii. 109.
[24] But see Pollux, ib. 65, who apparently read {gennaion touto to
aploun alla therides}; al. Arrian, vi. See Jaques de Fouilloux,
"La Venerie" (ap. E. Talbot, "Oeuvres completes de Xenophon,"
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