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of the dog improves, it should be more severe and of shorter 

 duration, till the greyhound is capable of accompanying a 

 horse at speed for a couple of miles, without showing any 

 signs of distress. After severe exercise dogs should be 

 walked for a quarter of an hour, and then returned to the 

 kennel, and brushed, cleaned, and fed. The brushing and 

 cleaning removes all scurf, &c., from the skin, an<l renders 

 the animal more cheerful and active. 



No remedy has yet been found to prevent a greyhound 

 from running false or cunning ; that is, in place of follow- 

 ing close after the hare, and capturing it by superior speed, 

 to endeavour to cut off its retreat, by making towards a va- 

 cant space in a wall or hole, through which hares are in the 

 habit of escaping. It is a propensity which greyhounds are 

 apt to indulge in when they have run frequently over the same 

 ground ; and as soon as they take to it, their previous excel- 

 lence, let it have been ever so great, becomes a dead letter, as 

 they are no longer to be depended on in running matches. 



THE KENNEL. 



We cannot do better than give Mr. Beckford's directions 

 respecting the management of the kennel, who was one of 

 the most experienced sportsmen of his day. 



"Cleanliness is not only absolutely necessary to the nose of 

 the hound, but also to the preservation of his health. Dogs 

 are naturally clean animals ; they seldom, when they can 

 help it, dung where they lie ; air and fresh straw are neces- 

 sary to keep them healthy. They are subject to the mange, 

 a disorder to which poverty and nastiness do very much con- 

 tribute. This, though easily stopped at its first appear- 

 ance, if suffered to continue long, greatly lessens the power 

 of the animal ; and the remedies which must then be used, 

 being in themselves violent, often injure his constitution : it 



