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absolutely pure blood. Prize-winning dogs 

 of high pedigree often prove useless for the 

 purposes. If by careful choice, however, a 

 ranchman can get together a pack composed 

 both of the smooth-haired greyhound and the 

 rough-haired Scotch deer-hound, he can have 

 excellent sport. The greyhounds sometimes 

 do best if they have a slight cross of bulldog 

 in their veins ; but this is not necessary. If 

 once a greyhound can be fairly entered to the 

 sport and acquires confidence, then its won- 

 derful agility, its sinewy strength and speed, 

 and the terrible snap with which its jaws come 

 together, render it a most formidable assail- 

 ant. Nothing can possibly exceed the gallan- 

 try with which good greyhounds, when their 

 blood is up, fling themselves on a wolf or 

 any other foe. There does not exist, and 

 there never has existed on the wide earth, a 

 more perfect type of dauntless courage than 

 such a hound. Not Gushing when he steered 

 his little launch through the black night 

 against the great ram Albemarle, not Custer 

 dashing into the valley of the Rosebud to die 

 with all his men, not Farragut himself lashed 

 in the rigging of the Hartford as she forged 

 past the forts to encounter her iron-clad foe, 

 can stand as a more perfect type of dauntless 

 valor. 



Once I had the good fortune to witness a 

 very exciting hunt of this character among the 

 foot-hills of the northern Rockies. I was 

 staying at the house of a friendly cowman, 

 whom I will call Judge Yancy Stump. Judge 



