[72 COUA'S/NG THE HARE 



o' Pods,' are possessed of extraordinary stamina. They 

 have probably broken the hearts of more good grey- 

 hounds than any other breed of hares in the country. 

 All the same, I must write of what I have seen, 

 and at no public coursing have 1 ever known hares 

 to so completely beat their pursuers as at the two 

 spots mentioned in the sketch of Private Coursing. 

 At both places the breed was what is generally known 

 in the North of England as ' Moor Edge' hares, and 

 I have always judged that these particular specimens 

 had to travel farther for their food during the night 

 than their inland neighbours of the enclosures, a con- 

 sequence being that they are kept in stronger work, 

 and are naturally in harder condition. And, a propos 

 of Moor Edge hares, those coursed at the Carmichael 

 Meetings, near Lanark, on Sir Windham Anstruther's 

 property, are a very hardy type, and marvellously 

 strong runners. Some of them disappear over the 

 skyline of the moor with the greyhounds behind them, 

 nearly two miles from where the crowd is gathered ; 

 but, nevertheless, I was never struck with their ex- 

 treme superiority, and I imagine there arc as many 

 kills at Carmichael as at many more southern meetings 

 in the enclosed country. 



At Southport much of the coursing is on ploughed 

 land, and strength in a greyhound is generally better 



