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>Having been beaten, when a puppy, with a whip, if any one, even at this day, does but mention a whip, he will come up to the speaker cowering and begging, applying his mouth to the man's as if to kiss him, and jumping up, will hang on his neck, and not let him go until he has appeased his angry threats.
>Now really I do not think that I should be ashamed to write even the name of this dog; that it may be left to posterity, that Xenophon (ZEN-noh-fahn) the Athenian had a greyhound called Horme (HOR-mee), of the greatest speed and intelligence and altogether supremely excellent.