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and conny " only " the conny," Dr. Caius 

 explains, " wee ufe not to hunt, but rather to take 

 it, fomtime with the nette, fometime with the 

 ferret." The terrar " creepes into the grounde, 

 and by that meanes makes afrayde, nyppes and 

 bytes the fox and the badger." It is evidently 

 the original of the modern fox-terrier. On the 

 bloodhound the author enlarges with evident 

 delight. It is ufeful, he fays, to track wounded 

 deer or their poachers, and is kept " in clofe and 

 darke channels " (kennels) in the day-time by its 

 owner, but let loofe at night, " to the intent that 

 it myght with more courage and boldnefTe practife 

 to follow the fellon in the evening and folitary 

 houres of darknefie, when fuch yll-difpofed varlots 

 are principally purpofed to play theyr impudent 

 pageants and imprudent pranckes." Thefe hounds 

 are alfo much ufed, he tells us, on the Borders 

 againft cattle-lifters. The females are called 

 bracket, in common with " all bytches belonging 

 to the hunting kinde of dogges " (conf. Hotfpur's 

 words, i Henry IV., iii. i, "I had rather hear 

 Lady, my brach, howl in Irifh "). The gaze- 

 hound (agaffeus) he defcribes as a northern hound, 

 which, " by the fteadfaftnes of the eye," marks 

 out and runs down any quarry which it once 

 feparates from the herd. It clearly in this place 

 refembles the prefent Scotch deerhound. The 

 "grehounde" is "a fpare and bare kinde of dogge, 

 of fleme but not of bone ; and the nature of thefe 

 dogges I find to be wonderful by y' teftimoniall 

 of hiftories," for which he cites Froiflart. At the 



