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haunches sweeping, and firm to the touch : ™ — with regard to 

 their legs, if the hind ones are longer than the fore, the grey- 

 hound will run best up hill ; if the fore legs are longest, down 

 hill ; but if both are equal, he will run best on a flat. "^ Since, 

 however, it is more difficult to beat a hare on an acclivity, 

 because she runs best up hill, those are deemed the better 

 class of dogs, whose hind legs are longer than their fore ones. ^" 

 Round and strong feet are decidedly best. "^ 



CllAl 



20. EuTTOTTj — well-filleted ? Fillet, " musculosior pars fetnoris sic dicta, quia eo 

 loci magni et validi tendines et nervi insigaes, qui propter iongitudinera, filorum 

 speciem exhibent, occurrunt." 



So Markliam : " a straight square and flat back, short and strong fillets ; a broad 

 space between the hips ; a strong stern or tail, and a round foot, and good large 

 clefts." Elsewhere, lie sajs ; " a long, broad, and square beaine back, with high 

 round fillets" — " hee must be deepe swine sided, with hollow bended ribs, and a full 

 brest ; he roust have rush growne limbes before, and sickell houghs behind ; a fine, 

 round, full cat's foot, with strong cleyes and tough soles, and an even growne long 

 rat's tail, round turning at the lower end from the leash ward ; and hee must bee full 

 set on betweene the buttockes," &c. 



21. The Cynosophium has the same remarks on the relative length of the fore and 

 hind legs ; see sect. iv. p. 262. 



22. 



Xpeiii) Se (T/coireAou fXiP avavreos f/Se irdyoio 

 (TeieffBai irpoQiovra nroSwKea (pv\a Xaycowv, 

 wphs Se Kdravra crocp'^cn irpofa-qOeirjcriv iXaivuv. 

 avrUa yap ffKv\aK<is re /col av4pas aOpricravTes 

 irphs \6<pov iQvovaiv, ewel ^ciAa yivdiaKovffiv 

 Htti irdpoSiV taffiv uKt^Srepoi irSSes avToTs. 

 ToUveKa prf'iStai. irTWKeffcn ireXovct KoKuvai, 

 pffiSiai -irTwKeffffi, SvadvTees l'7nre\dr'^(Ti. 



Skinner 

 Etymolog. 



Countrey 



Contentments. 



B. I. p. 48. 



The Countrey 

 Farme. c. xxii. 



Oppian. Cyneg. 

 IV. V. 425. 



And ^lian, De Nature Animalium, states the advantage and disadvantage of this 



shape to the hare : to Se avdvTrj /xev koI v^Xa ol \ay(fi apa9iOV(Ti paara' to yap roi Lib. xiii. c. 14. 



kutSitiv KwXa fiaKpSrepa exoutrt tw;' e/jLirpocrdev, Kal KaraQeovffiv ovk dfioiws, Xinre? 7^^ 



avTovs Tuv ■rroSaiv rh ivavriov : — a circumstance well known to every courser, and not 



forgotten in the " Questions" of Dame Juliana's poetical manual, 



Tell me, maister, (quoth the man) what dooth it skill 

 Why the hare would so faine runne against the hil 1 

 Quoth the maister, for her leggs be shorter before, 

 And therfore she desireth to run that way evermore. 



The Booke of 



Hunting, &c. 



Edmund Allde. 



1586. 



