NOTHING BUT A HOUND DOG

A 15th-century English nun and field sports authority of her time, Dame Juliana Berners, had this to say about greyhounds in her Boke of Saint Albans: a good greyhound should have the head of a snake, the neck of a dragon, a back like a beam and the flanks of a bream, the paws of a cat and the tail of a rat. 

This translates into French as: un bon lévrier doit avoir la tête d'un serpent, le cou d'un dragon, le dos tel une poutre et les flancs d'une brème, les pattes d'un chat et la queue d'un rat.

The above greyhound or lévrier points toward the upstairs exhibits at the exceptional Musée Le Secq des Tournelles, world-class wrought iron museum in Rouen.

©2012 P.B. Lecron