Jack Rabbit Hunting With Greyhounds 77 



trjing to produce. There is no royal road to success in 

 breeding, all the rules and axioms will help a person but little 

 if they do not know the animals they are breeding and their 

 progenitors, as well as they know the members of their own 

 family. Americans, as a rule, cannot bear to spend the time 

 to acquire this training. They are taken with a fancy for 

 this or that breed of dogs, or whatever it may be, and they 

 buy the best that money can produce without considering 

 further. Any one with money can buy a string of winners, 

 but it takes an artist, it takes a breeder, to produce them. 

 The writer has several times visited the great coursing events 

 in England, where noted greyhounds from every part of 

 Great Britain were assembled, but he never has seen in any 

 one man's stud, so many high class hounds as are owned by 

 Messrs. Bartel Brothers, of Denver, Colorado. 



As we arrive out on the beautiful open plains, the hounds 

 are given full liberty. What a beautiful sight! How they 

 jump and play about the horses! Such agility, such grace, 

 such poetry of motion. In tliis they distance all other four- 

 footed animals. There is nothing like it. A grand pack of 

 well bred foxhounds is a sight to cheer the heart of any man 

 who loves a dog, or any other animal for that matter, but 

 a ride over the boundless plains with a pack of greyhounds 

 is the finest dog show on earth. 



We walk our horses slowly on over the great table land 

 covered with short brown buffalo grass that affords less than 

 half concealment for ]Mr. Jack even when he lies as flat as 

 he can make himself between the tufts of grass. 



His brownish grey colour, however, makes it quite im- 

 possible for man or hound to see him until he chooses to move 

 and when he does move he goes straight away, at such a fear- 

 ful gait that the saying "runs like a streak," fits him exactly. 

 Up to the moment he is "jumped" in the very midst of the 

 hounds, they have been running and jumping at each other in 



