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although the course be given against him, be deemed the 

 winner of it, or shall have the option of allowing the dog 

 to remain and run out the stake, and in such a case shall 

 be entitled to half its winnings.] 



Penalties are as follow : 



(a.) Where a Greyhound, from his own defect, refuses to 

 follow the hare at which he is slipped, he shall lose the course. 



(6.) Where a dog wilfully stands still in a course, or departs 

 from directly pursuing the hare, no points subsequently made 

 by him shall be scored; and if the points made by him up to 

 that time be just equal to those made by his antagonist in the 

 whole course, he shall thereby lose the course; but where one 

 or both dogs stop with the hare in view, through inability to 

 continue the course, it shall be decided according to the number 

 of points gained by each dog during the whole course. 



(c.) If a dog refuses to fence where the other fences, any 

 points subsequently made by him are not to be scored ; but if 

 he does his best to fence, and is foiled by sticking in a meuse, 

 the course shall end there. When the points are equal the 

 superior fencer shall win the course. 



The above rules in their present, as in their primitive, 

 form, were intended for the guidance of the sport as 

 carried on in the field, and under natural conditions, so 

 far as the hare was affected ; but now they are also applied 

 to a new style of conducting the pastime, which many 

 think unfair to the game, and adverse to the true interests 

 of the sport. 



The chief grounds for the carrying on of this system 

 of coursing are at High Gosforth Park, Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne, and Kempton Park, near London. I have not the 

 dimensions of the latter ground, but the former was 

 described in the Prospectus of the Company as about 

 700yds. long by 100yds. wide. The hares are kept, 

 and artificially fed, in ground surrounded by wire netting 

 6ft. high ; those of them required to be coursed are, the 



