^96 TACT AGAINST FICTION. 



and, single-lianclcd, shook her foe in a very sliort 

 time to death. I had also a bull and mastiff dog 

 wlio would Avork for game for me on land or 

 water ; terriers and lurchers tlie same ; and, in 

 short, all dogs can be induced to do anything that 

 by '^ reason " is possible. 



It is a very vulgar error to suppose that gre}^- 

 liounds, as contrasted with other dogs, are deficient 

 in mind and incapable of the most faithful attach- 

 ment ; my life among them has proved to me the 

 contrary. 



An American author, I forget his name, when 

 '' gleaning notes" in this country many years ago, 

 fell into an amusing error when he attempted to 

 descant on and to describe the greyhounds of the 

 then Duke of Gordon. The American asserted, in 

 his publication, that if any of the greyhounds of 

 His Grace evinced the slightest attachment to any 

 one 2)erson, or manifested more sagacity than the 

 generality of their fellows, for that reason they 

 were immediately ordered by the Duke to be taken 

 from the kennel and hung. 



Now, His Grace of that day Avas the last man iti 

 the United Kin<alom to do anv such foolish or 

 cruel thing. American travellers in this country 



