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much gained towards our object; but still, without a good brain and nervous 

 system to stimulate it to action, it is utterly useless ; and without a good heart and 

 lungs to carry on the circulation during its active employment, it will still fail us in 

 our need. Again, even if all these organs are sound and formed of good proportions 

 by nature, if mismanagement or other causes interrupt their proper nutrition by 

 digestion and assimilation, the framework speedily falls away, and our hopes are 

 irrecoverably wrecked." 



The following are the points in the greyhound : 



Value. 



Head 10 



Neck 10 



Chest and fore quarters 20 



40 



Value. 

 Loin and back ribs ... 15 



Hind quarters 20 



Feet 15 



50 

 Grand Total 100. 



Value. 



Tail 5 



Colour and coat... 5 



10 



1. The head (value 10). " I have already said that in my opinion, the head 

 should be large between the ears, and in a dog from 25in. to 26in. high, should 

 measure at least 14f in. in circumference midway between the eyes and ears. This 

 point is one which is not usually insisted on, many coursers preferring the narrow 

 and elegant head, which will easily allow the neck- strap to slip over it. My own 

 conviction is so strong that I do not hesitate to advise the selection of the head with 

 a wider neck to it, and as narrow and low as it can be obtained between the eyes. 

 Very little intelligence is required in the greyhound ; and if it were possible to obtain 

 the full development of the appetite for his game (the seat of which is no doubt in 

 the back of the brain) without any corresponding increase of intellectual faculties, 

 it would be desirable to do so. But, unfortunately, this is not attainable without 

 some slight drawback ; for, though it may be possible to selact heads in which there 

 is very great increase in volume in the back of the head, in proportion to the en- 

 largement of the forehead, still the latter part is more or less developed, and in 

 these animals greater care is necessary in the rearing to prevent them, from self- 

 hunting, or from assisting the sheepdog of the farm in finding and killing what 

 rabbits and hares are in the neighbourhood. But when that care has been taken, 

 this greyhound is really valuable ; his courage is immense ; no amount of injury 

 or work seems to cow him (though he is not necessarily stout, for this quality, 

 I believe, resides in the whole nervous system, and not in any part of it), and even 

 the whip only subdues for a time his appetite for blood. The jaw can hardly be 

 too lean, but the muscle should be full, and there should be little or no development 

 of the nasal sinuses. I am not fond of long-nosed greyhounds ; but I have seen 

 good ones possessing that appendage in almost every variety of shape. The eye 

 should be full and bright, giving the idea of high spirits and animation. As to the 

 ears, there is a very great variety in the different breeds, from the large upstanding 

 ones of the Heatherjock variety to the small and elegantly-falling ear of most of our 

 modern greyhounds. The bitch has always a neater and more compact head than 

 her brothers, and there is generally a livelier look about the eye ; but, though the 



