Mr. Ivie Campbell. 7 



pleasant winter tune, and a greyhound that has " done 

 the state some service" lies stretched in dreams on the 

 hearth-rug. We have listened with delight as Mr. 

 Nightingale recounted the points of each crack course 

 at the meetings where he wore the scarlet ; and 

 though the cold February wind whistled loud and 

 shrill round the Ayrshire barn-tops, and away to the 

 moors behind, what cared we as the servant lassie 

 brought in tea, and fresh logs to the fire, and the late 

 Mr. Campbell, with Canaradzo at his feet, dwelt fondly 

 on the race of Scotland Yet. In his build Mr. 

 Campbell would remind us of the late Mr. Kirby of 

 York a man of burly frame, in a capacious black tail 

 coat from which he had rather shrunk. He was good- 

 tempered, but always able to hold his own, with in- 

 cisive Quaker-like retorts, against a host, when he was 

 chaffed. He sold all his greyhounds, save Coodareena, 

 in the spring of '65, Canaradzo for ioo/. to Mr. 

 Knowles, and Calabaroono for 2OO/., to the late Lord 

 Uffington, with a view to the Waterloo Cup, for which 

 he came, after the frost, far too fat to the slips. Few 

 men began coursing so late, and none have made such 

 prices ; but his dogs were always well placed, and well 

 trained by his son and " Jock o' Dalgig." 



He was much " exercised" in the manufacture of 

 greyhound names, and was wont to say that it often 

 relieved him from severe fits of toothache. The pursuit 

 had its origin as follows. He had a red dog, " Crom- 

 well," winner of the Biggar (Open) Cup of sixty-four 

 dogs, in 1853 ; and shortly after another " Cromwell," 

 to his intense disgust, started up in the English entries. 

 Then he called a brace " Scotland Yet" and " High- 

 land Home" after favourite Scottish songs, and when 

 the Ridgway Club entries came out, Mr. Sharpe had 

 a Scotland Yet as well. After that he would have 

 " no common names," and followed up a limited use 

 of Ossian, by making them for himself. His first-born 

 was " Coomerango," of which Boomerang was the key- 



