114 THE COMMON GREYHOUN0. 



In February, 1800, a brace of Greyhounds, in 

 Lincolnshire, ran a Hare to a distance, measured in 

 a direct line from her seat to the place where 

 killed, upwards of four miles, in twelve minutes. 

 During the course, there was a great number of 

 turns, which considerably increased the space gone 

 over. The Hare ran herself dead before the Grey- 

 hounds touched her. 



Horses have been as greatly distressed in keep- 

 ing up, for their riders to see a course, as in much 

 longer chases with Hounds. A Hare was found 

 close to the town of Bottisham in Cambridgeshire, 

 and twenty-two Horses started; but only one could 

 make a gallop at the conclusion of the course. 

 The Hare (which was within fifty paces of the 

 cover) was dead some yards before the Grey- 

 hounds; and even these were obliged to be bled, 

 in order to recover them. 



Greyhounds, though coupled together, have been 

 known to break from their keeper, chase and kill 

 a Hare, though at every turn the animal had a 

 manifest advantage, by embarrassing the Dogs to 

 change their direction. 



The uncommon ardour and velocity of the Grey- 

 hound, have sometimes been the cause of its de- 

 struction. The Rev. Mr. Corsellis was wind-bound 

 at Dover; and a famous Greyhound that was with 

 him there, started by chance a Hare in the neigh- 

 bourhood, that till this attack had beaten all her 

 pursuers. The Dog was superior to her in speed, 



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