60 NATURAL HISTORY OP THE DOG. 



selves more than any other puppies of this season, part of whicn 

 are thoroughly smooth, and part thoroughly rough. The run- 

 ning of him and his lurcher race, equally confute two opposite 

 sayings : the one, that rough dogs are not fast, but last long ; 

 the other, that they can get out of the slips, but want b<> 

 First, Lord Eglinton's Major is the only dog he meets which 

 makes Gilbertfield look not singularly fast up to his 

 Second, the race with Dusty Miller, on the last day of the gold 

 cup running, put an end to all skepticism as to Gilbertfield's 

 bottom. The performances of his ancestors, Oscar, Capilly, 

 and Charles James Pox, in the Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire 

 Club, and of Orlando Purioso, Burr, and GiralFe, in East Lo- 

 thian his own success, during four seasons, in every club to 

 which he belongs, viz., the Ardrossan, Biggar, Clydesdale, 

 Dirleton, and the Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire, (being rough, 

 he is excluded from running at Winchburg,) and his triumph 

 at Eaglesham and the commenced career of his oflspring, 

 viz., Ocean, Goth, Vandal, Capilly, Harp, Guitar, and Lilly, 

 (one litter,) supply the best of all evidence, that Gilbertfield 

 not only inherits, but can transmit winning blood the great 

 aim, it is to be presumed, of every sagaciom bitadcr of grey- 

 hounds." KUmarnock Journal, 1938. 



TIIE ITALIAN GREYHOUND. 



The Italian greyhound is, as might be supposed, t native 

 of the country whence it derives its name ; it is a very small, 

 delicate creature, being a miniature portrait of a high-bred 

 greyhound of the very first class ; and it has been occasionally 

 resorted to as a cross, to give greater fineness of form and coat 

 to a coarse stock of the ordinary greyhound. The Italian 

 greyhound is very fleet, but is, of course, too feeble to be of 

 any service in coursing, as he could not hold a hare, if even 

 he succeeded in overtaxing her. 



I have known some, however, less diminutive than usual, 

 employed successfully in coursing rabbits. They are ex. 

 tremely eager and vivacious, full of life and spirit, and make 

 most engaging p-rts. The Italian greyhound, from beinj? in 

 such esteem wit' the fair sex, fetches a high price from live 

 to ten guineas being regarded as by no means unusual, if the 

 animal be a highly bred and handsome specimen. 



Mr. Nolan, of Bachelor's- walk, Dublin, has some of the 

 finest I have ever seen, and also, I think, the smallest grey- 

 hound in the world a dog, now very old, not exceeding nine 



