AS ITS NAME IMPLIES, this variety of the dog must be classed with the hounds, but it differs from all the others of this division in being used for the pursuit of hares by the eye alone. Its congener, the deerhound fills up the gap between the two being encouraged to take up the scent of its game when it loses view. But it must not be supposed that our modern greyhound is entirely without the power of scent, as there are numberless proofs to the contrary in the shape of pure-bred dogs of this kind which are used as lurchers. A good dog of this sort will run from view to scent and back again as often as is required by the nature of the ground, and will account for every hare he is allowed to hunt undisturbed. Indeed, the chief difficulty with the trainer of greyhounds is to keep his charge from using their noses, which many strains are very apt to do, to the great disgust of the public courser; though the tendency of this development of the olfactory organ is so much in favour of "currant jelly" that the private courser does not always object to it.

On the whole, however, the greyhound may be defined as the only British dog hunting its game by the eye alone.

As the points of this dog have been fully described in "The Greyhound," and as it is desirable to keep them before the public without any alteration, I shall insert them in the ipsissima verba which are introduced in that book.

"Experience has convinced all coursers that a dog with plenty of length from his hip to his hock is likely to be speedy, because there is a greater than usual length of muscle to act upon the hock, and also a longer stride. The same unerring criterion has also led us to believe that a good back will give increase of power; in fact, that, coeteris paribus, size is power. But this law must not be taken without exceptions, since there must of necessity be a due proportion of parts, or else the successive actions necessary for speed will not take place in due order and with the proper regularity of stroke, and also because, by a well-known mechanical law, what is gained in power is lost in speed or time. This framework, then, of bones and muscles, when obtained of good form and proportions, is so much gained towards our object; but still, without a good brain and nervous system to stimulate it to action, it is utterly useless; and without a good heart and lungs to carry on the circulation during its active employment, it will still fail us in our need.

Again, even if all these organs are sound and formed of good proportions by nature, if mismanagement or other causes interrupt their proper nutrition by digestion and assimilation, the framework speedily falls away, and our hopes are irrecoverably wrecked".

The Following Are The Points In The Greyhound

Grand Total 100.