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stray hounds, the pack is with difficulty maintained. 

 Puppies are constantly lost in the commencement of 

 their training by straying too far into the jungle, and 

 sometimes by reckless valour. I lost a fine young 

 greyhound, Lancer, own brother to Lucifer, in this 

 way. It was his first day with the pack. 



We found a buck who came to bay in a deep rocky 

 torrent, where the dogs had no chance with him, and 

 he amused himself by striking them under water at 

 his pleasure. He at length took his stand among 

 some large rocks, between which the torrent rushed 

 with great rapidity previous to its descent over a fall 

 of sixty feet. 



In this impregnable position young Lancer chose 

 to distinguish himself, and with a beautiful spring he 

 flew straight at the buck's head ; but the elk met him 

 with a tremendous blow with the fore feet, which 

 broke his back, and the unfortunate Lancer was killed 

 in his first essay and swept over the waterfall. This 

 buck was at bay for two hours before he was 

 killed. 



A veteran seizer is generally seamed with innumer- 

 able scars. Poor old Bran, who, being a thoroughbred 

 greyhound, is too fine in the skin for such rough hunt- 

 ing, has been sewn up in so many places that he is a 

 complete specimen of needlework. If any dog is hurt 

 in a fight with elk or boar, it is sure to be old Bran. 

 He has now a scar from a wound that was seven 



