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greyhounds^ not yet come to their full 

 strength. 



Once or twice the so-called Russian wolf- 

 hounds or silky coated greyhounds, the 

 " borzois," have been imported and tried in 

 wolf-hunting on the western plains ; but hith- 

 erto they have not shown themselves equal, at 

 either running or fighting, to the big American- 

 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 Europe, to per- 

 form such feats of courage, endurance, and 

 strength, in chasing and killing dangerous 

 game, as the homebred greyhounds of Colonel 

 Williams. 



