The Greyhound. 



and down a high hill twice," would quite preclude 

 any modern greyhound getting to the end of a stake, 

 when perhaps he might have four or five courses to 

 run before being returned the winner. Major, a 

 brother to Snowball, and both out of Czarina, 

 already mentioned, was said to be the faster of the 

 two, but without the stamina of his brother ; still he 

 was successful in his matches, which at that time 

 usually took the place of our modern coursing 

 meetings. 



The latter quickly attained the position they hold 

 at the present day, for they afforded capital sport to 

 the million at a minimum cost ; they were the means 

 of producing first-class dogs, and as a man to keep 

 a greyhound need not of necessity be a " gentleman," 

 or of extraordinary means, public coursing obtained 

 a hold on the public second only to those gatherings 

 which took place on the racecourse. Even at this 

 time, say about 1850, the licence to keep a greyhound 

 cost more than it did for any other dog, viz., 12$. 6d. 

 This was an arrangement that the growing liberality 

 of our Government soon abolished, and after various 

 changes a greyhound has to pay but the >]s. 6d. duty, 

 just the same as though he were a mongrel terrier. 

 I do not know that anyone objects to this, or has 

 hitherto looked upon the equalisation of the dog 

 licence as specially dishonourable to those of the 



