THE DOG. 
near to the game as to wound them with 
their rifles, which, owing to the vigilance of 
the deer, and the acuteness of their sight, 
®Qiell, and hearing, it is extremely difficult to 
‘tn* They are followed by two or three high- 
landers carrying spare rifles, and leading the 
‘teer-hounds. When they have wounded any 
nf the deer, the dogs are let loose upon the 
track of their blood, and they never leave it 
till they have brought the animal to bay, most 
^omrnonly in some stream, where they keep 
jnr till the sportsman comes up and shoots 
through the head. 
The greyhound, represented lying in the 
middle of the group, is the fleetest of all the 
'varieties of the canine race ; but, not pos- 
sessing the fine scent of other hounds, it can 
pursue only by the eye, and must be indebted 
success to its astonishing speed. Such is 
swiftness of the greyhound, that a fleet 
orse can scarcely keep up with him ; and so 
