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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 "bor- 

 zois," 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. 



