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rent dog upon the best bitch ; observe this 

 rule in general as to breeding, let your dogs 

 and bitches, as near as you can, be of an equal 

 age, not exceeding four years old ; however 

 to breed with a young dog and an old bitch 

 may be the means of producing excellent 

 whelps, the goodness whereof you will know 

 by their shape, in this manner ; to be raw- 

 boned, lean, loose made, trickled or crook 

 hocked, and generally connected in every 

 member, are the proper marks of excellent 

 shape and goodness ; but if after three or four 

 months they appear round and close thrust, 

 fat, straight, and not full summed, and knit 

 in every member, they never prove good, 

 swift, or comely. A well shaped greyhound, 

 after a year and a half old, will have his head 

 lean and long, with a sharp nose, rush grown 

 from the eye downwards ; a full clear eye, 

 with long eyelids ; a sharp ear, short and 

 close falling ; a long neck a little bending, 

 with a loose hanging weasand, abroad breast, 

 Straight fore legs, hollow side, straight ribs, 

 a square flat back, short and strong fillets, a 



