T76 COURSING 'J HE HARE 



if one meeting disappears another takes its place, 

 and there are as many Irish nominators in the 

 Waterloo Cup as ever there used to be when coursing 

 was more general than it is now. 



In this very brief sketch of the sport I have been 

 obliged to leave out many subjects connected with 

 coursing on which I might have touched had I more 

 space at my disposal. Thus, I have said nothing about 

 the management and training of greyhounds, their 

 breeding and pedigrees ; nor have I made mention 

 of the famous dogs of the past, nor treated of the 

 AWaterloo Cup and other big stakes : for it seemed 

 to me that, with limited space at command, a slight 

 description of private and public coursing as they 

 have been and are — as far as is possible with the 

 present scarcity of hares — would meet the views of my 

 readers better than a 7'echauffe of dry historical facts or 

 of details of the sport from a calendar point of view. 



