THE MODERN GREYHOUND. 31 



" Sir, yf you be on hunting bounde, 

 I shall you gyve a good Greyhounde 



That is dunne as a doo ; 

 For as I am trewe gentlewoman, 

 There was never deer that he at ran 

 That myght ysoape him fro." 



At the sale of the Greyhounds of that eminent courser, 

 Lord Kivers, in May, 1825, a list of which is given in 

 Goodlake's " Courser's Manual," there were, out of fifty-two 

 dogs, twenty-three all black, fourteen all blue, six red, four 

 blue and white, and one all white. There are still many 

 coursers who prefer the pure black or the red ; but the follow- 

 ing short list, taken from the " Coursing Calendar," shows 

 good Greyhounds of many different colours : Scotland Yet and 

 her sons Canaradzo and Calioja were white; Cerito, fawn 

 and white; Lobelia, brindled and white; Lady Stormont, 

 black and white ; Master M'Grath, black and white ; Beacon, 

 Blue Light, and Sapphire, all blue ; High Idea, blue ticked ; 

 Bed of Stone, Bab at the Bowster, and Sea Cove, red ; 

 Cauld Kail, red ticked; Mocking Bird, Cashier, and Black 

 Knight, all black ; Landgravine and Elsecar, brindled. 



As regards size, the medium-sized dog is preferred by 

 most, There is a considerable difference, both in height 

 and weight, between the dog and bitch. Prejudice against 

 small dogs received a shock by the double victory 

 of Coomassie in the Waterloo Cup, she being a bitch of 

 only 421b. running weight; and her appearance, also, was 

 not prepossessing, her colour being a washed-out fawn. 

 Again, Penelope II., the runner up for the Cup in 1886, 

 weighed but 411b., her victor, Miss Glendyne, weighing 

 541b. ; this seeming to confirm the courser's adage, " A 

 good big one will always beat a good little one." 



