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private nature are periodically held in France, at 

 which one of our best English judges, Mr. Brice, 

 officiates. He has also been invited to St. Peters- 

 burg and Moscow for a similar purpose, and there 

 he has had his duties varied by being asked to give 

 his opinion on the trials of Russian hounds, Borzoi, 

 when slipped to the common wolf of the country. 

 It need scarcely be stated here that in Russia the 

 sport of coursing is only participated in by the 

 princes and nobles, with which that country abounds, 

 and whose wealth is prodigious. 



