THE ITALIAN GREYHOUND 615 



Mr. J. S. Day with Crucifix, Rosy Cross, and Wee Wee; Mrs. 

 Bligh Monck with Duke, Duchess, and Jessie ; Mrs. Giltrap 

 with Countess and Romeo ; Mr. G. Butler with Wykham Duke, 

 Duchess, Beauty, etc. In later years came Miss Mackenzie (who 

 has shown a great number of specimens), Mrs. Cottrell-Dormer, 

 Mr. Hulland, Mrs. Philip Turner (who has taken many prizes 

 with specimens mostly having the prefix of Larkfield). Lastly 

 there are Mrs. Scarlett, Mrs. W. Matthews, Mrs. G. Burger, Miss 

 Bowick, Mrs. G. Raper, and Miss Ada Wood. Wykham Silver 

 and Contessa, belonging to the last-named, are two of the best 

 of recent years. 



The variety has now the advantage of a club of its own, and 

 during the last two or three years there has been a marked increase 

 in the entries at the shows providing classifications and judges 

 acceptable to the fanciers of this formerly much neglected variety, 

 so that, although at one time its popularity was at a very low ebb, 

 it is now in a fair way to recover its prestige. 



As anecdotes respecting these dogs are few and far between, 

 the following, related by Youatt, may be of interest : 



" An Italian Greyhound was such a favourite of the late Frederick 

 the Great, King of Prussia, that he used to carry it with him on 

 nearly all occasions. During the Seven Years' War Frederick, being 

 pursued by a party of Austrian dragoons, was compelled to take 

 refuge under the dry arch of a bridge while the soldiers passed by. 

 He bore his favourite in his arms, and had the little animal once 

 growled or barked, the monarch would have been discovered and 

 taken prisoner, and the fate of the campaign and of Prussia at once 

 decided. But the dog lay quite still and quiet, clinging to its 

 master in fear and trembling, as if conscious of the dangers to 

 which they were exposed. Thus was the King saved from discovery 

 the only instance, perhaps, in the world where the fate of an 

 empire depended on the bark of a dog ! When, years after, the 

 little creature died, he was carefully buried in the Palace Gardens 

 at Berlin the King placing him in the grave with his own hands. 

 Over his remains there was, soon after, placed an inscription telling 

 all the world of his devotion and faithfulness." 



In a book on dogs, edited by Henry Webb, and published in 

 1874, the following is given as being related by the lady who acted 

 so bravely on the occasion in question, and shows that these little 

 dogs possess more intelligence than they are credited with : 



" A lady whom we met some time since related the following 

 instance of the devotion and gratitude for kindness shown by one 

 of this variety. Some years before she was walking by the canal 

 side in Venice, when a bright, lively little Greyhound, apparently a 

 young dog, ran by accident against a man, who gave it a brutal 



