,^ j-.^^^ V^/sir:^^ — — 



tiiiiu:t dog. 



The chief use— if use it cnn he termed— of the Greyhonnil, is in coursing 

 the hare, nud cxluhiting iu this chase its marvellous swiftness, and its endurance 



"" In actual speed, the Greyhound far surpasses the hare, so that, if the frightened 

 chase were to run in a strai-ht line, she would soon be snapped up by the 

 swifter hounds. But the hai-e is a nuich smaller and lighter animal than her 

 pursuer, and, being furnished with veiy short forelegs, is enabled to turn at an 

 ancrle to her course without a chock, while the heavier and longer limbed Grey- 

 hounds are carried far beyond their prey by their own impetus, belore they can 

 alter their course, and again make after the hare. 



On this principle the whole of coursing depends ; the hare making short, (luick 



S3 



