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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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TYPES OF GREYHOUNDS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY B.C.From Gr.ek tcrra-cotta vases in The British Museum. CHAPTER XVIII.THE GREYHOUND. BY FREDK GRESHAM. Let us swearThat you are worth your breeding ; which I doubt not;For there is none of you so mean and base,That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.I see you stand like Greyhounds in the slips.Straining upon the start. The games afoot. —King Henry V. THE Greyhound is the oldest and mostconservative of all dogs, and histype has altered singularly littleduring the seven thousand years in whichhe is known to have been cherished for hisspeed, and kept by men for running downthe gazelle or coursing the hare. Theearliest references to him are far back inthe primitive ages, long before he wasbeautifully depicted by Assyrian artists,straining at the leash or racing after hisprey across the desert sands. The Egyptiansloved him and appreciated him centuriesbefore the pyramids were built.* In those * A recent American writer on the dog makesa point of h

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