SMOOTH GREYHOUND. 



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our researches back for fifty or a hundred years, and even then we 

 shall often find that we are lost in a sea of doubt. 



Captain Daintree's "King Cob." 



Until within the last twenty-five years public coursing was 

 confined to a very limited circle of competitors, partly owing to 

 the careful retention of the best blood in the kennels of a chosen 

 few, but chiefly to the existing game laws, which made it impera- 

 tive that every person coursing should not only have a certificate. 



