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was an extraordinary disparity in size, Pontarlier 

 scaling 721b. and Pescara just half that weight. 

 Both ran well, and are, undoubtedly, high-class 

 greyhounds. 



About twelve years ago, inclosed meetings for 

 greyhounds were inaugurated, and I believe, during 

 the time the most important ones continued, they 

 seldom flourished. Considerable harm was done by 

 them to the sport of coursing. They were g te- 

 money meetings, run in inclosures, with hares that 

 might have been turned down " the night before the 

 race," for anything publicly known to the contrary. 

 Puss was sent through an opening, near to which 

 the slipper stood ; he let her get away, then slipped 

 his dogs. The hare had, perhaps, a distance of 

 800 yards to go before she reached a refuge, into 

 which her pursuers could not enter. Usually she 

 escaped ; before doing so she might be turned a few 

 times, but a very fast hare could reach the covert 

 without being turned or wrenched by either dog. 

 A thousand-pound stake was to be won at one 

 meeting, at Kempton Park, not far from London. 

 Big prizes were also provided at Haydock Park near 

 Liverpool, where they did their best to breed their 

 own hares, and at Gosforth, near Newcastle. How- 

 ever, with the exception of that at Witham, not 

 one of them has proved pecuniarily successful, and 



