The Dog and the Sportsman: Embracing the Uses, Breeding, Training, Diseases, Etc., Etc., of Dogs, and an Account of the Different Kinds of Game, with Their Habits. Also Hints to Shooters, with Various Useful Recipes, Etc., Etc |
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Page 43 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 39 - But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth: While man, vain insect!