The Crozier Pharaohs

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The author gives grateful thanks to Dr Monica Still, hon. secretary of the Pharaoh Hounds Club, for her invaluable information regarding these splendid dogs.

Doggerel

The hounds in this my story

Are overmatched in glory

By those whose names they carry,

Yet here Nile gods may tarry.

Isis, Osiris, falcon-headed Horus,

Nephthys, Anubis, Amon, bay in chorus.

Gods named these hounds, for better or for worse,

For dog, heaven bless us! — god is…in reverse.

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I’ve been looking them up while I was in London, ’ said Laura.

‘Friends of yours?’ asked Dame Beatrice.

‘No. I’ve never met them.’ Perceiving a look of innocent enquiry on her employer’s yellow countenance, Laura hastened to add, ‘Oh, I see what you mean. In saying I’ve been looking them up, I was referring to a spot of research I’ve done into the history of those hounds the Rant sisters told us they keep. Very interesting. Do you know that the breed has remained true to type for more than five thousand years?’

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