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EG.772.017
28 Apr-5 May 1772:1613 (4/197)
[Advertisement included in an anecdote on the Pretender or
Chevalier in the North of England in 1745, which lead to the
battle and victory at Culloden.]
ADVERTISEMENT WITH A REWARD.
Run away from their Master at Rome, in the Dog-Days of last
August, and since secreted in France, two young lurchers of
the right Italian breed, being of a thick dun colour, with
sharp noses, long claws, and hanging ears, have been taken
abroad for King Charles the Second's breed, but a bitch from
Italy unfortunately broke the strain in 88, by admitting
into the kennel, a base mongrel of another litter; They are
supposed to be upon the hunt for prey in the North, they go
a full dog-trot by night for fear of being catch'd, they
answer to the names of Hector and Plunder, and will jump and
dance at the sound of the French-Horn, being used to that
note by an old Dog-Master at Paris, they prick up their ears
also at the musick of a Lancaster Horn-Pipe:
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Beware of them, for they have got a smack of the Scots
Mange, and those that are bit by them run mad, and are
called Jacobites.
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