VARIETIES OF THE DOG. 



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THE GB.ECIA.N GREYHOUND. 



The principal difference between the Grecian and the English greyhound 

 is, that the former is not so large, the muzzle is not so pointed, and the 

 limbs are not so finely framed. 



THE TURKISH GREYHOUND 



is a small-sized hairless dog, or with only a few hairs on his tail. He is 

 never used in the field, and bred only as a spoiled pet, yet not always 

 spoiled, for anecdotes are related of his inviolable attachment to his owner. 

 One of them belonged to a Turkish Pacha who was destroyed by the bow- 

 string. He would not forsake the corpse, but laid himself down by the 

 body of his murdered master, and presently expired. 



THE PERSIAN GREYHOUND 



is a beautiful animal. He is more delicately framed than the English 

 breed ; the ears are also more pendulous, and feathered almost as much 

 as those of a King Charles's spaniel. Notwithstanding, however, his 

 apparent slenderness and delicacy, he yields not in courage, and scarcely 

 in strength, to the British dog. There are few kennels in which he is 

 found in which he is not the master. 



In his native country, he is not only used for hunting the hare, but the 

 antelope, the wild ass, and even the boar. The antelope is speedier than 

 the greyhound : therefore the hawk is given to him as an ally. The 

 antelope is no sooner started than the hawk is cast off, who, fluttering 



