88 Hounds 



THE GREYHOUND 



From time immemorial the Greyhound, or at any- 

 rate a hound of similar conformation, has been used 

 for coursing the hare. During the reign of Queen 

 Elizabeth coursing appears to have been indulged 

 in, as a physician to that Queen — Dr Johannes 

 Caius — refers to the Greyhound, and the Queen 

 used Greyhounds for coursing the stag, but it is 

 quite possible that the hounds used at that period 

 were more of the Deerhound type. Moreover, 

 Edmund de Langley and Gervase Markham both 

 refer to the Greyhound, the former writing in the 

 fourteenth century and the latter about the begin- 

 ning of the seventeenth century. In the British 

 Museum there is the mummy head of an Egyptian 

 hound, the anatomical outhnes of which bear some 

 resemblance to those of the tall hound now under 

 consideration. There is also a group of dogs dis- 

 played in the same museum found at Monte Cagnolo. 

 This piece of statuary depicts two dogs which appear 

 to be representative of the Greyhound. In modern 

 times the Greyhound has been repeatedly referred to. 

 Thus Sir Walter Scott, in his introduction to Marmion, 

 speaks of the Greyhound in the following terms: 



" Remember'st thou my Greyhound true? 

 O'er holt or hill there never flew. 

 From leash or slip there never sprang, 

 More fleet of foot, more sure of fang." 



