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lion, and stay through the fight, coming out bleeding and 

 quivering, with hardly a whole skin among them. 



Sir Samuel Baker, in his explorations in Africa and his 

 jungle-hunting in Ceylon, was always accompanied by a 

 pack of Greyhounds, and the deeds of valor performed by 

 them on wild game, as recounted by him, prove their cour- 

 age beyond doubt. 



In point of speed, courage, fortitude, endurance, sagacity, 

 and fine, almost human, judgment, no grander animal lives 

 than the Greyhound. He knows no fear, he turns from no 

 game animal on which he is sighted, no matter how large 

 or how ferocious. He pursues with the speed of the wind, 

 seizes the instant he comes up with the game, and stays in 

 the fight until either he or the quarry is dead. 



The following revised rules have been adopted as the 

 standard for American coursing, and anyone training Grey- 

 hounds should be perfectly familiar with them in all their 

 details : 



1. THE JUDGE shall be appointed the night the drawing takes place. 

 The slipper and other field officers shall also be appointed on the night of the 

 draw. 



2. Two WEEKS' NOTICE shall be given of the day of the drawing, 

 through the public press. 



3. THE DRAWING shall take place at least three days previous to the run- 

 ning, when the time and place of putting the first brace of dogs into the slips 

 shall be declared. A card or counter, bearing a corresponding number, shall 

 be assigned to each entry. These numbered cards or counters shall then be 

 placed together and drawn indiscriminately. This classification, once made, 

 shall not be disturbed throughout the meeting, except for the purpose of 

 guarding, or on account of byes. Dogs whose position on the cards has been 

 altered in consequence of guarding, or of byes, must return to their original 

 position in the next round, if guarding does not prevent it. 



4. GUARDING. When more than one nomination in a stake is taken in 

 one name, the Greyhounds, if bona fide the property of the same owner, shall 

 be gua'rded throughout. This is always to be arranged, as far as possible, by 

 bringing up the dogs from below to meet those which are to be guarded. This 

 guarding is not, however, to deprive any dog of a natural bye to which he 

 may be entitled, either in the draw or in running through the stake. 



5. BYES. A natural bye shall be given to the lowest available dog in 

 each round. No dog shall run a second such bye in any stake, unless it is 

 unavoidable. When a dog is entitled to a bye, either natural or accidental, 



