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scriptions. Above all, let it be ever present with those 

 who rear greyhounds that if neglected in their youth, 

 no after process avails them aught. Their food should 

 be substantial, such as oatmeal and broth, very thick, 

 oatmeal cakes made thick and soaked in tepid milk, and 

 flesh hung up so that they may have to use exertion to 

 reach it ; the pulling at it giving liberty to the neck and 

 strength to the jaws. Never confine them long. Con- 

 stant exercise is as necessary to the development of their 

 powers as judicious feeding. Let them accompany you 

 as much as possible in your rides and walks in the 

 former, as they grow in strength and age, increasing the 

 speed when an opportunity is afforded of doing so, with- 

 out injury to their action, the certain consequence of fast 

 work on roads or other hard surfaces. A greyhound, to 

 be symmetrical, should be shark-jawed, prick-eared, 

 with a long neck, thin withers, deep shoulders, broad 

 hooped back, broad loins, flat sides well let down, deep 

 gaskins, straight legs, short from the hock to the pastern 

 joint, thin feet, pointed, a very long fine stern, and large 

 floating veins. It will improve greyhounds' looks, and 

 save their health, to dress them daily with a moderately 

 hard brush, using a little oil. 



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