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dogs to overcome and slay unaided a big tim 

 ber wolf. Several times the feat was per 

 formed 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 &quot;bor 

 zois,&quot; have been imported and tried in wolf- 

 hunting on the Western plains; but hither 

 to they have not shown themselves equal, at 

 either running or fighting, to the big Ameri 

 can-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 Eu 

 rope, to perform such feats of courage, en 

 durance, and strength, in chasing and killing 

 dangerous game, as the home-bred greyhounds 

 of Colonel Williams. 



