14 THE GREYHOUND. 



quality called stoutness. But let those who have seen the litter 

 got by the * Curler' out of ' Lucy/ run in 1852, say whether they 

 did not combine great outgoing speed with all the other qualities 

 I have enumerated. For though, as I have said, they possess first- 

 class pace, they were as stout as steel, good workers and killers, 

 and regardless of punishment. But, as I have already remarked, 

 in the ' Jason ' head inherited by the ' Curler,' and most of the 

 other descendants of ' Jason,' will be found the same shape, or 

 nearly so, which I have described in ' War Eagle,' and with this 

 advantage, that it is almost always found in that family, and not, 

 as in the ' Foremosts,' only occasionally, and I think there is less 

 development of the forehead in the f Jasons ' than in the ' Fore- 

 mosts.'* I have measured a great number of the descendants of 

 6 Jason,' and have found in almost every instance the dimensions 

 to exceed fourteen inches and a half, in some reaching to fifteen 

 inches. The development is still greater between the ears, where 

 it cannot be so well measured on account of the jaw not reaching 

 so far back. Whether this form of head be inherited from the 

 bull-dog or not, it is, I am sure, characteristic of this family ; and 

 as it does not appear in the portrait of Mr. Sharp's ( Monarch ' 

 (the grandsire of ' Jason,' and free from the bull-dog cross, which 

 comes through ' Eisk '), it may fairly be supposed to be derived 

 from that strain. 



* This form of head is seen in l Mocking Bird/ though not in any other of 

 her family. It therefore, most probably, comes through f Frederica/ the dam 

 of l Foremost,' and granddam of ( Mocking Bird.' It is also well developed in 

 'Riot,' who is descended, though one stage more remotely, from ' Frederica/ 

 being by 'Bedlamite/ son of 'Figaro/ and therefore a grandson of that bitch. 



