86 WARE SHEEP ! BREEDING THE GREYHOUND. 



homewards, at a steady pace, leaving- the hare where he had turned her up and 

 killed her. This course having- been so strange and eventful, the hare was 

 presented to Mr. White, of Tattingstone, and made part of a dinner of which a 

 noble Lord partook, we think, the Lord Chedworth, proprietor of the Racing 1 Stallion 

 Snap. Five guineas were collected for the wounded man, who had a large family. 



We embrace the present opportunity of giving a needful caution to those, who 

 are in the habit of suffering their Greyhounds, when not engaged, to be constantly 

 running about without controul, particularly by night. Whilst prowling about 

 by night, they are perhaps beyond all other dogs, prone to the pursuit of sheep, 

 and numbers, at different periods, have been destroyed by them. Being on a visit 

 some years since, in Essex, to take a few days sport, the Greyhounds of a gentle- 

 man in the neighbourhood, killed half a dozen sheep out of a farmer's flock, and 

 wounded beside a considerable number. On the sufferer's application for redress, 

 the affair was treated with levity, even laughter it was asked, do nobody's dogs 

 kill sheep but mine ? and not one shilling recompense made, notwithstanding the 

 aggravation, of the present being more than the second time ! 



It has been handed down to us in the scripture of our ancient sages, that the best 

 dog upon an indifferent bitch, will not get so good a whelp as an indifferent dog 

 upon the best bitch-- -all and every particle of which is, in great probability, of 

 about as much consequence as any other musty nonsense, even although Pliny him- 

 self may have written it. The breeder who would have thorough-shaped stock of 

 any species, must breed from both male and female so qualified ; he may fail, it is 

 true, nevertheless he will not find a surer method. Young Greyhounds, like other 

 hounds, are entered within the twelvemonth, and require constant work in the 

 coursing season. They should be encouraged with blood, but as the perfection of 

 training, taught to give up readily the hare when killed. 



Some have expressed a wonder, that Beagles should be thought too speedy for 

 hunting the Hare, when Greyhounds, the swiftest of all the canine race, are in 

 constant use for coursing her. But the reason exists in the different natures of 

 the hunt and the course. The best bred and fleetest Greyhounds will be found in 

 tlu> vicinities of the great Coursing Meetings Newmarket^ Swaff'ham, the Hun- 

 dreds of Essex and the IVolds of Yorkshire. 



