means the possession of light, thick, soft, and silky hair.[22]

[21] i.e. "at mid-day"; or, "in the height of summer"; al. "during the
dog-days"; "at the rising of the dog-star."

[22] See Pollux, ib. 59; Arrian, vi. 1.

As to the colour proper for a hound,[23] it should not be simply
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,"
traduction, ii. 318).

There is a good deal to be said for taking your hounds frequently into
the mountains; not so much for taking them on to cultivated land.[25]
And for this reason: the fells offer facilities for hunting and for
following the quarry without interruption, while cultivated land,
owing to the number of cross roads and beaten paths, presents
opportunities for neither. Moreover, quite apart from finding a hare,
it is an excellent thing to take your dogs on to rough ground. It is