THE SPEEDY GREYHOUND.
A correspondent says that as the result of experiment he has made under careful timing ho finds that the greyhound is the fastest of all four-footed animala. When going at fnll gallop it can cover twenty yards a second, or about a mQe in a minute and twenty-eight seconds—a speed that cornea very- near that of a carrier pigeon. There are few thoroughbred hordes that can exceed nineteen yards a second. Greyhoands have been known to better that by four yards. Foxhounds have a record of four miles in six and a-half minutes, or nearly eighteen yards a second. This speed is to some extent an inherited gift, as wolves can run at the rate of a mile in three minutes. Nansen says thai. Siberian dogs can travel forty-five miles on ice in five hours.—English paper.
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Evening Star, Issue 11680, 12 February 1902, Page 6
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139THE SPEEDY GREYHOUND. Evening Star, Issue 11680, 12 February 1902, Page 6
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