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all, peradventure the property of some one on 

 whose breeding he has looked with something 

 bordering on contempt. ^'What, the blood of 

 old Snowball (or any other celebrated dog) beat 

 by a dog of ' no mark or likelyhood ! ' " Per- 

 haps in this case there was no excuse for defeat. 

 There is no "pulling," no "hocussing" here, for 

 as Lord Rivers said when asked how it happened 

 that he betted so heavily on his greyhounds 

 when he would not venture a shilling on a race, 

 " My dogs do not carry jockies," was his 

 Lordship's somewhat pithy reply. The coursing 

 man feels an interest in his dogs quite inde- 

 pendent of any stakes they may run for. So, 

 to a certain degree, does the owner of race 

 horses feel an interest in them, but I shall 

 have to mention characters by and by on the turf 

 who feel no interest but in the stakes, and of 

 course the bets depending on the contest for them. 

 Private coursing, as a sport, is not very 



much in vogue among the Sporting World, 

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