GREEN FOOD — GREYHOUND 



ground. (See Butterfly Nose^ Exercise^ Feedings Rearing 

 Puppies^ 



Green Food is necessary to keep dogs in health, and 

 if accustomed to eat it from their early puppyhood there is 

 no dijEficulty in making them take it. The best form of 

 vegetable food is cabbage, but some people give their dogs 

 quantities of the heads and tender shoots of nettles when 

 these can be obtained ; but whatever the green diet consists 

 of, it must be thoroughly boiled and cut up before mixed 

 with the other food. (See Feeding^ 



Greyhound. — In the opinion of many authorities well 

 qualified to express their views the greyhound is the most 

 ancient breed of dog in the world, and certainly there 

 appear likenesses of a dog of very similar appearance on 

 some of the old friezes which have been excavated in 

 Eastern countries. There are undoubted proofs forth- 

 coming, however, to show that the ancient Egyptians 

 possessed a dog resembling the greyhound, which they 

 used for hunting purposes, and the speed of which they 

 highly prized. Arrian — the younger Zenophon — who wrote 

 in the second century, moreover, referred to dogs which 

 hunted by sight and not by scent, and it is certain that 

 in his day a sport conducted on very similar lines to 

 modern coursing was popular in the East. Referring to 

 more modern times, it may be observed that Dame 

 Juliana Berners of Sopwell Priory, St. Albans, in her "Booke 

 of St. Albans," the earliest work of the kind published in 

 English, gave expression to a description of the greyhound 

 which has become historical. To quote a portion of that 

 immortal standard of the breed : — 



" A grehounde should be heeded lyke a snak 

 And neckyd lyke a drake. 

 Footed lyke a catte, 

 Tayllyd lyke a ratte, 

 Syded lyke a teem, 

 And chyned lyke a beem." 

 &c. &c. &c. 



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