FRENCH AND OTHER CONTINENTAL HOUNDS. 
and long erect ears, and stilty legs, it gives 
one the impression that it is masquerading 
as a Greyhound or an overgrown Whippet. 
Its innate sporting qualities are mostly ex- 
ercised on its own account, but with training 
it might be made a creditable hound. 
The gardens at Sans Souci, where the 
graves of many dogs are to be seen, bear 
testimony to the high regard in which 
Frederick the Great held his hounds, and 
in the Palace of Potsdam there is a statue 
of the dying king surrounded by his favourite 
canine friends. A story is told of how a 
pair of his dogs saved the king’s life. 
Frederick was accustomed to drink a cup 
of chocolate in the middle of the morning, 
THE SPANISH PODENGO TURCO. 
PROPERTY OF SENOR J. DE ROSADO, 
ARRAYOTTOS. 
and on one occasion, when sitting at his 
writing-table, he reached for the cup and 
saw that a spider had dropped into it from 
the ceiling. Not wishing to share the 
chocolate with the insect, he poured the 
liquid into the saucer, and gave it in turn 
to two of his Greyhounds. The dogs drank 
it, but to the king’s alarm they were almost im- 
mediately seized with convulsions. Within 
an hour they were both dead, evidently 
from poison. The French cook was sent 
for, but on hearing of the death of the hounds 
and the cause of their death, he blew out his 
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brains, dreading the discovery which was 
afterwards made that he was in the pay of 
Austria, and had poisoned the chocolate. 
These two dogs were Potsdam Grey- 
hounds, a breed of Italian origin, much 
favoured by Frederick the Great, who kept 
POTSDAM GREYHOUND KAISER. 
BRED AND OWNED BY LADY PAUL. 
many of them as companions, and pampered 
them so much that they had special valets 
to attend them exclusively, and were always 
allowed the best seats in the royal coach. 
They were strictly preserved as a breed 
peculiar to Potsdam, and were maintained 
as a distinct strain until long after the reign 
of their great master was ended. But in 
the time of the late Emperor Frederick only 
one pair remained. This pair, Dandy and 
Fly, came by the Emperor’s bequest into 
the possession of Countess Marie Munster, 
daughter of the German Ambassador at the 
Court of St. James’s, and from them have 
descended specimens now treasured by the 
Duchess of Somerset and Lady Paul, of 
Ballyglass, Waterford. 
Lady Paul describes them as resembling 
the Italian Greyhound, but that they are 
larger, standing some twenty inches high. 
Unlike the ordinary Greyhound, they have 
wonderfully good noses, and will follow a 
scent like a terrier. Their coats are very 
fine in texture, and in colour fawn, blue, 
black, silver grey or a peculiarly beautiful 
bronze. They are exceedingly clean and 
exceptionally affectionate. Essentially they 
