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THE SCOTTISH GREYHOUND, 



Ca7iis Sooticus, 



Is of the same race as the Russian, and similarly 

 coloured ; but, from greater attention, or the cross 

 of a stag-hound at some period, it is endowed with 

 higher faculties of intellect, and formerly had so 

 good a nose, that we believe this variety was mostly 

 used as a blood-hound. Sir Walter Scott's cele- 

 brated dog Maida was of this breed. 



There appeared in the Kilmarnock Journal, 1836, 

 an article copied in the Caledonian Mercury, where- 

 in, under the head Coursing, and a notice of a por- 

 trait of Gilbertfield, introductory to the pedigxee of 

 that dog, there is a lively picture of the attention 

 bestowed upon greyhounds in the northern parts of 

 the kingdom : — 



" The reiterated success of this old dog (Gilbert- 

 field) may well excite a smile at those who would 

 talk or write him down as a third-rate, or stigma- 

 tise him as a lurcher ! If he be a third-rate, the 

 march of intellect among the knights of the long- 

 tails must verily be retrograde ; and if he be indeed 

 a lurcher, it becomes necessary to know by what 

 name are to be called the ninety unsuccessful compe- 



