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add to tlicir inclination to tlic marvellous^ by catch- 

 ing at any sort of straw that current or wind 

 sends or brings in their direction, and are but too 

 delighted to pin any sort of delusion that has the 

 remotest circumstance to found itself upon to the 

 narrative of their adventures in the Old World. 



The same sort of foundation in this instance is 

 attached to circumstances as that on which rests 

 the habit of calling every mad dog a hydrophobic 

 dog, and asserting, because the dog whose malady 

 was mistaken drank water, or attempted to drink 

 it, that all hydrophobic dogs would do the same. 



The real fact as to the drafting of greyhounds 

 for faults or too nuicli wisdom was, that a grey- 

 hound kept for ^^ public running'' was not worth 

 keeping if he selected to ^' run cunmng." To 

 " run cunning" means to w^ait on the dog matched 

 against him ; not to try conclusions of speed with 

 his opponent, Init to ^' lie by" for ^Hhe turn," 

 letting the other dog do all the w^ork, and running 

 on purpose second to him, for the desire of flinging 

 in and catching the hare when 'Hurned." A grey- 

 hound resorting to this cunning trick is no use as 

 far as running in public for a prize goes, an}^ more 

 than a skirting foxhound is for assisting tlie pack 



