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AFGHAN LONGDOG IS HANDY The Afghan longdog is perhaps one of the most remarkable appearing of the greyhound family His enormous coat and clean face at once class him as a wonderful animal There are a few of those in England but good specimens are scarce There is some similarity between the face and ears of tlie Afghan and those of the Irish water spaniel Hut as we are all aware the IrMi dog is curly coated The Indians jackal is profuse and when combed out is silky This loiigdog is used in a hilly and stony country and those who have hunted with him have fold me firsthand that they place great value on tlie profuse foot covering or feathering It pro ¬ tected him against the roughness of the terrain where this longdog is called upon to help the hunter It is likely there is a considerable rela ¬ tionship between the running dogs of mountainous Afghanistan and those of its western neighbor Iersia In Afghanistan there are jackal and gazelle aplenty The native greyhound however is in ¬ ferior in speed to secondrate English dogs The climate is found to be favorable to dog breeding rotators are bred in the Kohistan of Kabul and above Inlalahad large heavy slowhunting but fine nosed and staunch like the old doublenosed Spanish pointer
