THE GREYHOUND. 363 



The Courser's Manual or Stud BooJc^ by Thomas 

 Goodlake, Esq. (1828,) has the following interest- 

 ing passages on the alteration effected in this species 

 of dog. " In the days of Elizabeth," says the 

 author, " the greyhound seems to have been a fine 

 and effective animal, but approaching more to the 

 bony, wire-haired make of the Highland greyhound 

 represented in the pictures of Edwin Landseer, and 

 deficient in the symmetry and fine glossy coat 

 which mark a high-bred kennel of modern times. 

 It is probable, that during the early part of the 

 seventeenth century, judicious crosses were made, 

 partly from the beautiful Italian greyhounds, which 

 we often see in family pictures, accompanying our 

 fair ancestresses in their parks and plaisances, and 

 partly from the stouter breed of dogs represented 

 in Flemish hunting-pieces ; and that even Persia 

 and Arabia, whose greyhounds are not to be despised 

 in point of form and speed, contributed their quota 

 of blood ; as it is shown by the history of Crom- 

 well's Coffin Nail, that the wealtliier gentry of that 

 period spared no expense or pains in improving the 

 more highly-prized breeds of sporting animals. If 

 we mistake not, some of the pictures of Charles the 

 First contain portraits of greyhounds approaching 

 nearly in point of coat and shape to the present 

 breed." 



Speaking of the late Lord Orford, who, with re- 

 spect to modern coursing, laid the foundation-stone 

 of the celebrity to which it has arrived, and who, 

 besides being celebrated for his greyhounds, esta- 

 blished the first coursing club that we read of, at 



