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sharp and very white teeth ; his tail is long, and curls 
round above his hind part. There are several varieties ; 
as the Italian Greyhound, the Oriental Greyhound, and 
the Irish Greyhound, or Wolf-dog. They are used for 
coursing; that is, hunting by sight instead of scent; 
and are principally employed in chasing hares. Daniel, 
in his Mural Sports, tells us, that a brace of Greyhounds 
have been known to course a hare four miles in twelve 
minutes ; turning it several times, till the poor creature 
dropped at last quite dead from fatigue. 
THE FOX. (Canis Values.) 
This well-known animal, which is found in most coun- 
tries of Europe, is of a reddish-brown colour, with the 
tip of his bushy tail white. His abode is generally on 
the skirt of a wood, as near a farm-yard as possible, in a 
hole, of which some other animal has been dispossessed 
or which it has voluntarily deserted. Thence he issues at 
night, and cautiously approaching the poultry, kills all 
that he can find, conveying them one by one to different 
