THE GREYHOUND 



" / see you stand li^e greyhounds in the slips, 

 Straining upon the start. The game's afoot." 



KING HENRY V. 



EVER since primitive man was put to the necessity of plenishing 

 the larder, dogs have been sub-divided into those that hunt 

 by scent and those that pursue the game by sight. The most 

 notable representative of the latter family is the greyhound, an 

 ancient and persistent type discoverable in most parts of the world. 

 Eastern countries furnish us with noble examples, which probably 

 differ little in shape from the dogs used in the days of the Pharoahs, 

 and from which, the chances are, our own were derived at some 

 remote period. Malory thought it no anachronism to introduce 

 the greyhound into his beautiful story of King Arthur and his 

 knights. Does not the wife of Aries the cowherd explain how 

 King Pellinore " took from me my greyhound, that I had at that 

 time with me, and said he would keep the greyhound for my love." 

 Malory was perfectly safe in his allusion, for centuries earlier 

 carvings on monuments rescued from ancient Egypt, rude though 



