Grey leather.
At that time, he often squatted outside the fence and watched the deer calves. The keeper of the forest named the calf Grayskin, because he did not deserve any other more pleasant name. Karl actually agreed with him calling him this name. Every time he saw a deer calf, the hound thought to himself that he had never seen such an ugly-looking little thing with such an unequal figure.
"Niels Riding the Goose" is a fairy tale created by Swedish female writer Selma Lagerl?f, first published in 1907.