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diminutive toy terrier. At present the specimens 

 of her strain are growing smaller, but so long as 

 pains are taken to breed from healthy, sound 

 parents, there is no reason to doubt that the 

 Italian greyhound in such good, careful hands 

 may become fashionable. In a perfect specimen 

 elegance is " caninified," if such a word may be 

 used, and it is to be regretted that there are not 

 more persons who at present take any interest in the 

 variety. So far as I can make out, a Mr. Anstice, 

 of Hammersmith, is about the only other person 

 who of late years has given much attention to their 

 breeding. I believe he has not hitherto exhibited 

 any of his dogs. 



That the Italian greyhound can be appreciated by 

 others not so civilized as ourselves, is proved by the 

 statement which recently appeared in the papers, 

 that the Matabele monarch, Lobengula, before he 

 became our enemy, quite fell in love with an Italian 

 greyhound he saw at Johannesburg. For a long 

 time its owner, Mr. Luscombe Searelle, refused to 

 part with his favourite, but in the end struck a 

 bargain, he receiving two hundred head of cattle for 

 his little dog. The black king was very much 

 pleased with the exchange, which he left in charge 

 of two of his chiefs, with the orders, should any evil 

 happen to the dog, the chiefs' lives would be forfeited. 



