American Big-Game Hunting 
tiersman seems to have an inveterate and 
rooted objection to a dog with pure blood. 
If he gets a greyhound, his first thought is to 
cross it with something else, whether a bull 
mastiff, or a setter, or a foxhound. There 
are a few men who keep leashes of grey- 
hounds of pure blood, bred and trained to 
antelope-coursing, and who do their coursing 
scientifically, carrying the dogs out to the 
hunting-grounds in wagons and exercising 
every care in the sport; but these men are 
rare. The average man who dwells where 
antelope are sufficiently abundant to make 
coursing a success, simply follows the pur- 
suit at odd moments, with whatever long- 
legged dogs he and his neighbors happen to 
have; and his methods of coursing are apt to 
be as rough as his outfit. My own coursing 
has been precisely of this character. At dif- 
ferent times I have had on my ranch one or 
two high-class greyhounds and Scotch deer- 
hounds, with which we have coursed deer 
and antelope, as well as jack-rabbits, foxes, 
and coyotes; and we have usually had with 
them one or two ordinary hounds, and various 
half-bred dogs. I must add, however, that 
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