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The Animal-Lore of Shakspeare’s Time. 
intrapped with snarre and nettes layde over holes to the same purpose.” 
( Reprint , p. 5.) 
Turbervile, in his Nolle Art of Venerie, translated from 
Du Fouiloux, mentions two kinds of terriers. One sort 
he imagines to have come from Flanders, or the Low 
Countries: “They have crooked legges and are shorte- 
heared most commonly. Another sorte there is which 
are shagged and streight-legged.” The former variety 
was probably the progenitor of the long-bodied dachshund, 
or badger-hound, so popular in modern times. 
Of the Gazehound, Camden writes, “That very dog 
Gazehound of the old name, agasseus, we call yet 
at this day a gazehound, those ancient Greeks 
both knew and had in great price.” Caius says ( Beprint , 
p. 9) this variety is called a gazehound— 
“ because the beames of his sight are so stedfastly and unmouve- 
ably fastened. These dogges are much and usually occupyed in the 
northern partes of England more then in the southern parts, and in 
fealdy landes rather then in bushy and wooddy places. Horsemen use 
them more then footemen, to th* intent that they might provoke their 
horses to a swift galloppe (wherewith they are more delighted then with 
the pray it selfe).” 
Mr. Low {Domesticated Animals , p. 722) says- 
“ This dog was employed in the pursuit of the stag or fallow-deer. 
The great Irish wolf-dog was of this class. He was one of the tallest 
dogs of Europe, measuring from three to four feet high at the shoulder. 
He approached to the general conformation of the ancient deerhound, 
but his muzzle was broader, his neck relatively thicker, his breast 
proportionably wider, and his limbs were more muscular. He followed 
the game chiefly by the eye, grasping it in the manner of the grey¬ 
hound with his long and powerful jaws. He was a dog of amazing 
courage, and could destroy unaided the fiercest wolf.” 
Poor Gelert, of ballad celebrity, was probably a gaze¬ 
hound. Mr. Baring-Gould and other myth-students, who 
have an unhappy knack of destroying some of our most 
cherished and earliest beliefs, assure us that this noble 
