Wolf-Coursing 



we decided to give them the opportunity, and 

 ere long they had him hors de combat, stretched 

 upon the ground, his body crimson with his 

 own life's blood, in the last throes of death. 

 He was one of the largest specimens I had 

 ever seen, weighing not less than 1 20 pounds, 

 the green pelt weighing twenty- four. His 

 carcass, when stood up alongside of Scotty, 

 seemed several inches taller, and I afterward 

 measured the latter and found him to be thirty- 

 one inches. 



All of the dogs received more or less pun- 

 ishment ; none escaped scathless, but really 

 much less damage was done than I expected. 

 This was owing to the fact that Dan and 

 Scotty, two of the staunchest seizers I ever 

 saw, engaged him constantly in front, while 

 the other dogs literally disemboweled him. 

 Scotty had a bad cut on the side of the neck, 

 requiring several stitches to close, and the 

 muscles of his shoulder were laid bare ; while 

 Dan's most serious hurt was a cut from dome 

 of skull to corner of eye, from which he never 

 entirely recovered, as he ever afterward had a 

 weeping eye. One of the cross-breeds, whose 

 pads were not well indurated, suffered from 

 lacerated feet, and one of his stoppers was torn 



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