Show why grey honnet up to about years ago grey hounds were the shaggy gray colored dogs used in the chase of large game after that the bamo was transferred sufficiently absurdly to the black white blue and yellow but generally spotted or and never gray dog that is now so popular for coursing hares it is very odd that no one writing about the dog should have insisted upon so obvious an absurdity on the contrary a great many writers who have written very wisely about the word grey have tried to explain away its simplest meaning by referring to celtic gaelic and saxon roots but considering si cheso two animals were called indifferently grey dogs or grey hounds in two words when our language first came to be written and that in those days dog and bound were absolutely synonymous it seems to me as great a waste of wisdom to try to provo that araie graie gray or grey when it is joined with dog or 1 meant anything else but grey as to sly eliat grey fly means a fly of princely extraction or graybeard gray beard a champion beard if I 1 quarrelsome I 1 should like to pretend that greyhound really meant badger dog at uny rato I 1 should havo fensk of language on my side toi gray grey braio and grei aro all names for the gray badger and I 1 would not be more absurd than the rest good words |