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The back and loins you sliould rub with your right hand, Chap. X. 

 placing your left under the belly ; lest the dog, being forcibly 

 pressed down upon his knees, should suffer injury. The sides 

 should be rubbed with both hands at once, and the haunches 

 quite domi to the feet, and the shoulders in the same way. 

 Wlien the dog seems to have had enough of it, lay hold of 

 his tail, and lift him up by it; and then having drawn it 

 through your hand, let him go. As soon as he is at liberty, 

 he will shake himself, and show that he is pleased with the 

 operation. 



It is a point of equal importance with any other, that grey- Chap. XI. 

 hounds be confined during the day ; ^ otherwise they will KeHnellmg. 



by body-clothes. The clothing of greyhounds, as at present practised by coursers, 

 is of more remote antiquity than the days of Michael Angelo Biondi ; having its pro- 

 bable origin in the aTihfioviai. of Xenophon, who describes, in the 6th chapter of his 

 Cynegeticus, all the accoutrements of his hunting pack. These consisted of collars, 

 Sepaia, soft and broad, so as not to rub off the dog's hair ; leading-thongs or straps, 

 tfidvTes, independent of the collar, with a handle attached to them ; and sur-cingles 

 or body-clothes, areXixoviai, with straps sufficiently broad not to gall the bellies of 

 the animals. Such was the Athenian's kvvwv k6(Thos : and it is probable that the 

 latter, though used for the protection of the hound from injury during the chase, and 

 not merely, as at present, against cold, may have been the type of the modern 

 application. 



The Bocii Kvves were certainly clothed in parti-coloured habiliments in the age of H. in Dian. 



Blondus, and their feet were also protected with shoes : " Canibus venaticis dorsum '^' l^^* 



. ^ ^ ... , J J. ■ - 1 .. De Canibus et 



integunt pannis diversorum colorum, adversus irigons mjuriam, praecipue leporams ; Venatione 



et pedibus adhibent calceamenta, quo facilius illaesi cursum exerceant." Beckman Libellus. 



states that the dogs of Kamschatka are furnished with shoes, so ingeniously made, Hist, of 



that their claws project through small apertures — a plausible contrivance for heavy Inventions. 



dogs of draught ; but how a greyhound is to exhibit his speed on the coursing plain 



with such incumbrances, I know not. 



1. Arrian recommends confinement for full-grown dogs ; but we must not suppose 



that the same treatment is suited to puppies. They, on the contrary, should have 



their entire liberty, as Nemesian remarks : 



Sed neque conclusos teneas, neque vincula collo Cyneget. 



Iropatiens circuradederis, noceasque futuris '• ^^^* 



Cursibus imprudens. 



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