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broad space between the hips, a strong stern, 

 or tail, a round foot, and good large clefts. 



The dieting of greyhounds consists in four 

 things, food, exercise, airing, and kennelling. 

 Food of a greyhound is two-fold; general, 

 that is, the maintaining of a dog in good 

 bodily condition, and particularly when diet- 

 ed for a wager, or it may for some dis- 

 temper he is afflicted with. 



A greyhound's general food ought to be 

 drippings, crusts of bread, soft bones and 

 gristle; your chippings ought to be scalded 

 in beef, mutton, veal, or venison broth, and 

 tvhen it is indifferently cool then make your 

 bread float with good milk, and give it youy 

 greyhounds morning and evening, and this 

 will keep them in a good state of body; 



' But if your dog be poor, sickly, and weak, 

 then take sheep's heads, wool and all, clean 

 washed^ and having broken them to pieces 

 put them into a pot, and when it boils skim 



