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in the rear of the coursing party, carrying the pair 

 of greyhounds which were not in the slips. After 

 a course the tired hounds were brought back, watered, 

 and put in the van to rest, while the other two were 

 in their turn put in the slips. Besides serving this 

 purpose it was a most useful all-round luggage cart, 

 and proved very suitable for taking lunch out, shooting, 

 and bringing home game. 



Early in May the new hounds arrived. They were 

 brother and sister, but the dog was a good deal the 

 larger. Except in the head, which was coarser and 

 more hound-like, they differed little from greyhounds in 

 appearance. There was, however, one notable differ- 

 ence ; both, especially the dog, threw their tongue when 

 hunting, and both had some little scenting powers. 



It was not till the third time I had them out 

 that we at last got blood. Three of us went out 

 to the scene of my early discomfiture with the two 

 jackals. In order to give them confidence I let all 

 the hounds run together. The first hill was blank, 

 but the second, on being beaten, produced a jack, 

 who went straight away for the first hill, some quarter 

 of a mile away. Away went the hounds, and away 

 we went, my companion coming to grief over a stone 

 wall. Just as I thought the jack was going to gain the 

 hill, the little bitch pinned him by the leg and rolled 

 him over. All the others then joined in, and I rode 

 up and put an end to his struggles with a hog-spear. 

 A jackal has no turn of speed which makes him 

 interesting from a coursing point of view, but I was 

 anxious to blood the hounds. A jackal will not even. 



