6 THE GREYHOUND. 



of jealousy possessed by the greyhound ; for what is it, after all, 

 but the desire to excel the competitor, from first to last, without 

 reference to the final result ? In the pointer always, and often 

 even in the foxhound and harrier, a great degree of jealousy is 

 injurious; and in them a mutual dependence is to be cultivated, 

 but the moment this comes into play in the public greyhound 

 he is not to be relied upon, and is said to ' be false ' or ' to 

 lurch,' because he displays a degree of cunning, leading him to 

 allow his rival to do the work which, if more jealous of him, he 

 would endeavour to do himself. It is, therefore, not only the 

 simple desire to kill which is to be cultivated, but also the 

 desire to anticipate the competitor in killing : many a false dog 

 will run well and with great fire single-handed, but with an 

 assistant he will not exert himself, unless he finds that he must 

 do so, or lose all chance of his game. 



But all the above-mentioned qualities are seldom combined 

 in perfection in the same animal. As a rule, the very speedy 

 dog must be of a different form from the very stout one. As 

 well might the breeder of race-horses expect to combine the 

 mile-horse and the four-miler in one, as the greyhound-breeder 

 to get a flyer capable of staying as long as the small compact 

 dog, which would be beaten ten lengths to the hare by his 

 speedier antagonist. The same will apply to working powers; 

 but there can be no reason whatever why the fast dog may not 

 be bred as honest as the slow one. Still this is not often the 

 case ; but I hope to show the reason why it is not so. The 

 grand point is, to ascertain, by experience, the shape and blood 



