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at least five dogs to overcome and slay unaided a big 

 timber wolf. Several times the feat was performed by a 

 party of five, consisting of two greyhounds, one rough- 

 coated deer-hound, and two cross-bloods ; and once by a 

 litter of seven young greyhounds, not yet come to their 

 full strength. 



Once or twice the so-called Russian wolf-hounds or 

 silky coated greyhounds, the " borzois," have been imported 

 and tried in wolf-hunting on the western plains ; but 

 hitherto they have not shown themselves equal, at either 

 running or fighting, to the big American-bred greyhounds of 

 the type produced by Colonel Williams and certain others 

 of our best western breeders. Indeed I have never known 

 any foreign greyhounds, whether Scotch, English, or from 

 continental Europe, to perform such feats of courage, 

 endurance, and strength, in chasing and killing dangerous 

 game, as the homebred greyhounds of Colonel Williams. 



