A COLLIER’S GREYHOUND.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 191, 19 January 1875, Page 3

A COLLIER’S GREYHOUND.

A curious and authentic story has come to the knowledge of the Manchester Courier's Sheffield correspondent regarding the manner in which colliers’ greyhounds (used in rabbit coursing) are kept. A Sheffield collier took his greyhound, valued at £4O, to a veterinary surgeon for his advice. He told the surgeon that he thought the dog was not right, for she would not “ eat her mutton the day afore, and that morning she wouldn’t hev her eggs and port wine.” When she refused her breakfast of eggs and port wine he was sure she was wrong. On being asked what he gave his dog, the collier said he bought for the dog every week two nice little legs of Welsh mutton, and when she could not be tempted by a slice out of the middle he became uneasy. Fresh eggs and wine—some favoured sherry, he preferred port—were the best things for these dogs. The veterinary surgeon pronounced the dog to be mad, and its owner confessed that she had bitten several human beings and a number.of other dogs. The collier, on being asked to inform the persons biDen and the owners of the dogs, replied, “ Nay, not I. They mun foind it out.” The collier earned 60s to 60g aweek, and his wife and children had to rest content with any scraps, that the dog might be fed and pampered like himself.