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behind us on the seats, carefully hidden. 

 Our journey was lively enough, as the 

 boys were full of anecdotes, and not at 

 all apprehensive as to what hotel they 

 were going to stop at on arriving at 

 Manchester. 



About this time the enclosed coursing 

 meetings were all the rage, and I fre- 

 quented them a good deal, and have been 

 to Kempton, Plumpton, Four Oaks, 

 Haydock, and Gosforth Park, all of which 

 are now done away with. I have seen 

 five or six Waterloo Cups, and high times 

 we had at the Adelphi, at Liverpool, 

 when things were rosy. Fullerton was 

 a grand greyhound at all points, and no 

 mistake. I have been to most coursing 

 meetings in England and Scotland ; the 

 open coursing is far preferable to the 

 enclosed system in my opinion. Coursing 

 is a terrible gamble, almost worse than 



