For some years in succession I dropped a clutch of greyhounds and two litters of setters, and not a single pup had the distemper more severely than for the disease to be just perceptible.
As soon, therefore, as a large kangaroo is seen, a well-educated brace of greyhoundsare slipped.
Greyhounds of a large rough kind are trained in some parts of Australia to course the kangaroo.
I knew some greyhounds of a purely English breed, but born in the country, which were thus maintained in capital health.
He was a great breeder of bull-dogs, of all the canine race the most difficult to save in distemper, greyhounds being, perhaps, the next on the list.
Think how greyhounds are by degrees brought into wind and hard meat before coursing commences.
In Persia and many parts of the East greyhounds are taught to assist the falcon in the capture of deer.
There were, also, two slight greyhounds and a Russian poodle.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start.
Say thou wilt course; thy greyhounds are as swift As breathed stags; ay, fleeter than the roe.
An able writer[84] believes that our English greyhounds are the descendants, progressively improved, of the large rough greyhounds which existed in Scotland so early as the third century.
No instance is on record of such dogs as bloodhounds, spaniels, true greyhounds having been kept by savages: they are the product of long-continued civilization.
The frightened waiting-women ran to report to the king what had happened to the princess; whereupon the king immediately let loose all his greyhounds to seize the cat which had been the cause of his daughter being carried off a second time.
They were tenants and others who, although the real coursing season had not yet begun in our neighbourhood, had been asked by Grampus to come to try their greyhounds upon his land.
I had thought of making for the other wood, that in which I had saved myself from the greyhounds when the beast Jack broke its neck against the tree, but it was too far off, and the ground was so open that I did not dare to try.
Also with them were I don't know how many spotted dogs whose tails curled over their backs, not like greyhounds whose tails curl between their legs.
The greyhounds jumped over and for a moment lost sight of me, for I had turned and run down near the side of the fence.
I can't tell you what I felt, Mahatma, and until you have been hunted by greyhounds you will never know.
But it was noticed that the greyhoundsnever caught the hare which the lad started.
It is as follows:-- "There was a hare which baffled all the greyhounds that were slipped at her.
They had horses and greyhounds adapted to their size.
One night after he had gone to bed he found that he had been changed into a hare, and to his dismay and horror he saw a couple of greyhounds slipped upon him.
Many gentlemen came to that part with greyhounds for the purpose of coursing, and the lad's services were always in requisition, for he never failed in starting a hare, and whenever he did so he was rewarded with a shilling.
What have we here a brace of Greyhounds broke loose from their masters: it must needs be so, for they have both their Collers and slippes about their neckes.
Now blesse me heaven, one of theGreyhounds turn'd into a woman, the other into a boy!
I have twice seen a wounded antelope pursued by greyhounds drop suddenly into a small ravine, and lie close to the ground, allowing the dogs to pass over it without noticing, and hurry forward.
He adds: "A wolf once joined with mygreyhounds in pursuit of a fox, which was luckily killed almost immediately afterwards, or the wolf might have seized one of the dogs instead of the fox.
The owner writes: "I sometimes took them on to the parade ground, and slipped a couple of greyhounds after them.
We laid the greyhounds into and killed one of the jackals.
With greyhounds pedigrees have likewise been kept, and the names of such dogs, as Snowball, Major, etc.
No instance is on record of such dogs as bloodhounds, spaniels, true greyhounds having been kept by savages: they are the product of long-continued civilisation.
His greyhounds have been fed on dates crushed in milk, and on the kouskoussou of his own meals.
The best greyhounds will not fairly overtake the herd until after a course of two or three leagues.
There are some who never feed their greyhounds during the day.
Greyhounds that are able to run a gazelle down are rare.
Even the fleas on our greyhounds died as soon as they entered the enchanted circle of red sand.
The most common are those of hares answering in size to our rabbits at home, and to-day the greyhounds have put up and coursed several of them, though quite in vain, for the ghada trees and bushes soon screen them from the dogs.
These wells lay among clumps of tamarisk, out of which we started several hares which the greyhounds could not catch, as they always dodged back to cover.
We thought too of our Christmas dinner, and how glad we should be to get some addition to the rice, which was all we had; but neither greyhounds nor mares were in good enough condition to run down their quarry.
It is said to have been introduced into this country in the days of Elfric, Duke of Mercia, and manuscript paintings exist of a Saxon chief, his huntsman and a brace of Greyhounds in the ninth century.
In illustration of this, I remember reading in a very old doggy book, an account of two greyhounds said to be as arrant thieves as ever lived.
For an instant the awfulness of the thing he was to do came upon him, and the next instant he found himself wondering if they still coursed jack-rabbits with greyhounds down at Coronado the way they used to do when he was there.
In the morning they bathed or sailed on the bay, and in the afternoon rode out with a pack of greyhounds and coursed jack-rabbits on the lower end of the island.
This circumstance alone would lead us to suppose, that we must look to a different breed than that of greyhounds as the antagonists of the wolf.
Sir Thomas Rue obtained great favour from the Great Mogul in 1615, for a brace of Irish greyhounds presented by him.
When they got up and gave the hare the first turn, it was evidently much to her advantage, as the greyhounds were so embarrassed that it was with great difficulty they could change the direction.
Few facts can show the high courage of the greyhound more than the following:-- As a gamekeeper of Lord Egremont's was leading a brace of greyhounds in couples, a hare accidentally crossed the road in view.
Holinshed, in speaking of the Irish, says, 'They are not without wolves, and greyhounds to hunt them.
Both greyhounds were so exhausted, that unless the aid of medical men, who happened to be on the spot, had been immediately given, they would have died, and it was with difficulty they were recovered.
Roderick, king of Connaught, was obliged to furnish hawks and greyhounds to Henry II.
Though several Persian greyhounds have at different times been brought to this country, the breed can scarcely be considered as established here.
Buffon remarks that "the Irish greyhounds are of a very ancient race.
The kennels of greyhounds should be kept comfortably warm and dry, be frequently replenished with dry and clean straw, and properly ventilated.
So Sir Gawain rode away, taking with him three couples of greyhounds for the pursuit.
At that moment Sir Gawain entered the court-yard, and an angry man was he when he saw his greyhounds slain.
The greyhounds came and laid their slender noses on her gown, and one small Italian one coiled himself up on her lap.
We are a droll household at the White House, Miss Challoner, are we not,--Barby and the greyhounds and I?
They wore cocked hats on their heads, pistols at their belts, and broad-swords by their sides; and at their horses' heels followed greyhounds and other dogs of the chase.
The large greyhounds come from the Levant, those of a middling size from Italy, and the latter being taken into England have become still smaller.
A pack of greyhounds lying on the floor, leaped and began to yelp in excitement.
There was a joyful reunion between the child and the greyhounds which had been shut in the corral.
Always the riders were preceded by the pack of greyhounds that darted yelping after jackrabbits or an occasional coyote.
Mr. Daniel in his rural sports gives an instance in which a brace of greyhounds chased a hare a distance of four miles in twelve minutes.
She was repeatedly seen by greyhounds when she sat at some distance, but uniformly made for the garden, and never failed to find security.
Greyhounds are often great martyrs to rheumatism, and Deacon, one of the pack, will sometimes howl from pain after a hunt.
IN many of my letters I have written about learning to ride and to shoot, and have told you, also, of having followed the greyhounds after coyotes and rabbits with Faye and Lieutenant Baldwin.
With him passed the very last of his blood, a breed of greyhounds that was known in Texas, Kansas, and Colorado as wonderful hunters, also remarkable for their pluck and beauty of form.
Greyhounds will rarely seek a fight, a trait that sometimes fools other dogs and brings them to their Waterloo.
So Hal and his mother are sole survivors of the greyhounds that have been known at many of the frontier posts as fearless and tireless hunters, and plucky fighters when forced to fight.
The wolf is sometimes hunted by harriers, but as he runs straight forward, and will hold his speed for a day together, the chace is very tedious without greyhounds to harrass and turn him at every view.
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