THE GREYHOUND. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Classification according to General Conformation Points in 

 which Dogs of the Greyhound Group agree Probable 

 Origin The Smooth Greyhound Introduction of the 

 Greyhound to Britain Arrian Holinshed Elfric Duke 

 of Mercians Kennels Strutt's " Sports and Pastimes " 

 Ossian's Description of a Royal Hunting Call The Deer- 

 hound and Irish Wolfhound The Celtic Greyhound 

 Edward the Confessor and his Hounds King John a Lover 

 of Hunting and of the Greyhound Gelert Edmund de 

 Langley's " Mayster of Game "" Booke of St. Alban's " 

 Coursing for Wagers Caius* " Englishe Dogges J) The 

 Gazehound Queen Elizabeth and Coursing The Duke of 

 Norfolk's Code of Laws of the Leash Common Source of 

 Wolfhound, Deerhound, and Greyhound. 



ANYONE who takes a comprehensive view of the varieties 

 of dogs exhibited at any of our largest shows will find it 

 easy, and indeed natural, to group them, independent of 

 catalogue classifications, according to the general forma- 



