28 THE GREYHOUND. 



grete ynow, and nought to hind legges; the feet straught 

 and round as a catte, and great cleas; the boones and the 

 joyntes of the cheyne grete and hard as the chyne of an 

 hert ; the thighs great and squarred as an hare ; the 

 houghs str eight, and not crompyng as of an oxe." The 

 shoulders should be set on as obliquely as possible, to 

 enable the dog to throw his fore legs well forward in his 

 gallop, the shoulder blades sloping in towards each other 

 as they rise ; they should be well clothed with muscle, 

 but not fleshy and coarse so as to look loaded; the 

 shoulders should not be tied together, but have plenty of 

 freedom this, with the strong muscles of the loin, enables 

 the dog to turn fast and cleverly; the elbows must be 

 neither turned out nor in; the bone of the leg must be 

 strong; there must be good length of arm; and the leg 

 below the knee must be short and very strong, and the 

 foot round and cat-like; well sprung knuckles, a firm, hard, 

 thick sole, and large, strong nails, are also essential. 



The beam-like back is to give the necessary strength; 

 the deep chest is needed with sufficient width to give 

 plenty of room for the lungs and heart to freely perform 

 their functions; width is needed that the necessary room 

 may be got without making the chest so deep as to be 

 in the way and catch against stones, tussocks, and lumps 

 of turf on rough, coarse ground, when the dog is fully 

 stretched in the gallop ; the oblique shoulders enable the 

 dog to throw his legs well forward and close together, 

 thus enabling him to cover a lot of ground at each stride, 

 and also, in connection with his long and supple neck, to 

 throw himself through an astonishingly small meuse. The 

 necessity of sufficient bone, big, strong joints, and muscular 



