WOLF COURSING. 15 



ment would be half the time on the sick list ; with 

 the greyhound it is different. As soon as you get a 

 view, at him they go, and although the game is 

 swift, still his adversaries are not long in ranging 

 alongside, when a snap in the hams or loins imme- 

 diately brings him to bay. Determined and numer- 

 ous are his efforts to catch the nimble antagonists, 

 who take precious good care to keep beyond reach. 

 After a few moments of such skirmishing, the closer 



approach of the sportsman admonishes the wolf to 



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 be moving, and off he goes, best foot foremost ; but 



his persecutors are in attendance. A hundred or two 

 yards may be traversed, and again he is brought 

 up standing from a similar cause; thus the game is 

 played till the wolf is exhausted, and the sportsman 

 gets sufficiently close to end the episode by a well- 

 directed pistol-bullet through the grizzly marauder's 

 cranium. 



Spearing the wolf on horseback is also capital 

 sport ; but it takes a great deal out of your nag, 

 for the scoundrel, while fresh, will double almost as 

 sharply as a hare, and from his wonderful lasting 

 powers takes you over an immense distance, he 

 invariably choosing the roughest ground. In this 

 mode, also, you must constantly be on the qui vive, 



