26o Modern Dogs. 



The whippet in perfection is a miniature grey- 

 hound, built on the lines of a Fullerton or of a Bab 

 at the Bowster, but smaller in size. It is kept 

 specially for running races and for coursing rabbits 

 on enclosed grounds arranged for the purpose, and 

 for which it undergoes a course of training suitable 

 to the circumstances. These coursing and running 

 matches may be considered the popular pastime 

 amongst a very large class in the mining and manu- 

 facturing districts northwards in the neighbourhood 

 of Newcastle, in Durham, Lancashire, and Yorkshire 

 especially. 



Several attempts have recently been made to 

 extend the popularisation of the whippet, especially 

 so far as its running powers are concerned. The 

 Kennel Club, for the first time in 1892, gave it an 

 entry in the Stud Book, and classes have been 

 provided for it at several south country shows. 

 Such had repeatedly appeared in the catalogues at 

 Darlington and elsewhere in the north, but they 

 seldom filled satisfactorily, and as a "bench dog" 

 I need scarcely say the whippet is not likely to be 

 any greater success than the greyhound. The 

 entries made in the Stud Book are few, and most of 

 the dogs there are minus a leading part of their 

 history — namely, their pedigrees. 



About the time the Kennel Club acknowledged 



