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Title: The sportsman's dictionary : or, The gentleman's companion: for town and country. Containing full and particular instructions for riding, hunting, fowling ... With the various methods to be observed in breeding and dieting of horses ... And the manner of curing their various diseases and accidents
Year: 1778 (1770s)
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Subjects: Horses Sports
Publisher: London : Printed for Fielding and Walker
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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thefe marks are hard to be diftin-guifhed in a white horfe; though the vulgartake the fpots for figns of flupidity, it iscertain they are great figns of the goodnefsof a horfe, and the horfes that have them arevery fenfible and quick upon the fpur. DUN. See Colours of a Horse. DUN HOUND: thefe dogs are goodfor all chaces, and therefore of generalufe. The beft coloured are fuch as are dun onthe back, having their fore quarters tannd,or of the complexion of a hares legs : butif the hair on the back be black, and theirlegs freckled with red and black, they thenufually prove excellent hounds, and indeedthere are few of a dun colour to be foundbad : and the worft of them are liich wholelegs are of a whitilli colour. It is v/onderful in thefe creatures, to ob-ferve how much they flick upon the know-ledge of their mailer, efpecially his voiceand horn, and no ones elfe : nay more thanthat, they know the diilant voices of theirfellow, and do know who are babblers and liars. >-sA_ Plat^- Tj\
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D U S * liars, and who not; and will follow the oneand not the other. Now for hounds; the weft country, Che-JJjire, and Lancajhire, with other wood-landand mountainous countries, breed our flowhounds, which is a large great dog, tall andheavy. Worcejierfiire, Bedfordfolre and many wellrnixt foils, where champagne and covert areof equal largenefs, produce a middle fizeddog of a more nimble compofure than theformer. Laftly, the north parts, as 7ork/fnre,Cumberland, Northmnherland, and many otherplain champagne countries, breed the light,nimble, fwift, flender, fleet hound. After all thefe, the little beagle isattributed to our country; the fame that iscalled the gaze hound: befides the maftiff,which feems to be a native of England; wealfo train up moft excellent greyhounds(which feem to have been brought hither bythe Gauls) in our open champagnes. All thefe dogs have deferved to be famousin adjacent and remote countries, whitherthey are fent for great rarities, and ambi-tiouflyfought fo

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