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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