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child, the "raid" failed. It is now adopted by the 

 Kennel Club, by the chief Russian authorities, and no 

 doubt that hound once known as the Russian wolf- 

 hound will remain the Borzoi to the end of his 

 days. On this matter. Prince Obolensky says : 

 " I am glad to see English sporting papers adopting 

 the Russian name for this breed, for the word itself 

 (Borzoi /;/as., Borzaia fern.) means ' swift and hot- 

 tempered ;' and though poets sometimes apply the 

 expression to a high-spirited steed, it is,, with this 

 exception, always applied to greyhounds only ; for 

 this reason the English greyhound is called, in 

 Russia, ' Angliskaia Borzaia,' or English Borzoi.'' 



Some little time before the above was published, 

 Lieutenant G. Tamooski, writing from Merv, pro- 

 posed the term '^ Psovi," which means literally ''thick 

 coated," as a fit name for the dog as it is known in 

 this country, because he says "Borzoi" means any 

 coursing hound whatever. 



The Duchess of Newcastle, Colonel and the Hon. 

 Mrs. Wellesley, the Duke and Duchess of Welling- 

 ton, Mrs Morrison, of near Salisbury ; Lady Innes 

 Kerr, Mr. A. H. Blees, Mrs. Coop, Mrs. W. B. Stamp, 

 Mrs. E. H. Barthropp, Mrs. M. E. Musgrave, Mrs. 

 G. W. Fitzwilliam, Miss A. M. Head, Mrs. Young, 

 Miss M. Thompson, and many others, have given 

 particular attention to the Borzoi, and they, with 



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