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ARRIAN 



Chap. XT. unavoidably become intractable, and, whenever fastened with 

 a collar, will be impatient under the restraint, and whine, and 



This freedom from restraint is to be continued until they are eight months old, when 

 they should be put into couples, and habituated to confinement : 



Cyneget. 

 V. 184. 



Petr. Angel. 



Bargcei 



Cyneget. L. v. 



Blondus de 



Canibus &c. 



Libellus. 



Libera tunc primum consuescant colla ligari, 

 Concordes et ferre giadus, ciausique teneri. 



The whole of this department of kennel discipline is elegantly explained by the 

 classic poet of Barga : 



Ergo age duro 

 Assuescant victu catuli, imperioque raagistri 

 Unius addiscant parere, atque unius omnes 

 Nutus observare, et jussa facessere Iseti, 

 Collaque prseduris uitro prasbere capistris. 

 Cum primum teneros artus duraverit tetas, 

 Et se jam sua per vestigia volverit annus. 

 Ante autera cave imprudens concluseris usquam 

 Aut loris vinctum, aut angusti pariete septi. 

 Namque urent tenerurn circumdata vincula collum, 

 Impatiensque morse sese conatibus anget : 

 Ostiaque arrodens denteis obtundet, et ungues. 



" Dum non venatur, loris in stabulo vinciendus est ; et siccis potiiis eduliis alendus 

 quam pinguibus jusculentis : hiec enim graviorem reddunt. Educendus taraen non- 

 nunquara est e stabulo vinctus, in vicos tantum, ut excrementis se exoneret promp- 

 tius ; mox iteruni coercendus usque ad tempus venationis." 



" Now for the kennelling of greyhounds," says Gervase Markham, " it is a right 

 necessary action and must ba performed with all diligence ; for it breeds in the dog 

 lust, spirit, and nimbleness, prevents divers mischances, and keeps the powers from 

 spending till time of necessity : and therefore you shall by no means suffer your dog 

 to be out of the kennel, but in the hours of feeding, walking, coursing, or when you 

 have other necessary business to do about him." But Arrian means more than mere 

 confinement within the walls of a kennel by the term SeSeVOat. 



The greyhounds are to be actually fastened with a collar and strap or chain; and 

 such, I am informed, is the customary restraint of the boar-hound of continental 

 Europe. The dogs are chained along the walls of their kennel equidistant from 

 each other, a row on each side of the sleeping-room. 



A celebrated modern courser adheres very strictly to the system of restraint alter- 

 nated with exercise, as recommended in this chapter, and appears to have found it 

 conducive to his success at public meetings. Vide Sport. Mag. Vol. 71. p. 256. — 



