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GREYHOUND SWIFTEST OF QUADRUPEDS Comparatively few persons realize of what re ¬ markable speed dogs are canable says the Spring ¬ field Republican The wolf can run between fifty and sixty miles in one night and the Arctic fox can do quite as well if not better Nansen met one of these foxes on the ice at a point more than seventy miles northwest of the Sannikow territory which is 480 miles from the Asiatic coast coastKxkimo Kxkimo and Siberian dogs can travel fortyfive miles on th ice in five hours and there is one case on record in which a team of Eskimo dogs travelled minutesEnglish six and onehalf miles in twenty minutes English setters and pointers hunt at the rate of eighteen and nineteen milea an hour and they can maintain the speed for at least two hours Fox ¬ hounds are extraordinarily swift as is proved by the fact that a dog of this breed once beat a thor ¬ oughbred horse covering four miles in six and one half minutes minutesGreyhounds Greyhounds are the swiftest of all fourfooted croatures and their speed may be regarded as equal to that of carrier pigeons English greyhounds which are carofullv selected and which are used for coursing are able to cover at full gallop a space be ¬ tween eighteen and twentythree yards every sec ¬ ond ondIt It is said that a hare at its greatest speed never goes faster than at the rate of eighteen yards a second These interesting statistics fully prove the right of the greyhound to rank as the swiftest of the quadruiHHls
