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produced the small ear, the rat-tail, the fine, thin, 

 silky coat, together with that quiet, innate courage 

 which the high-bred greyhound should possess, pre- 

 ferring death to relinquishing the chase." There 

 is something curiously analogous in the sense con- 

 veyed by the concluding words of this extract. 

 His lordship fell dead from his horse immediately 

 after witnessing the triumph of his famous bitch 

 Czarina, in a match at Swafi'ham, having been in 

 vain admonished on the impropriety of taking the 

 field in his then indifferent state of health ; and his 

 memory is introduced as a toast at most coursing 

 meetings, as father and patron of the sport. 



The Terrier. — The terrier is no longer the 

 accompaniment to a pack of fox-hounds, and for the 

 best of all reasons. Foxes are not nearly so often 

 digged for as formerly ; and his only use was, by 

 his bay, to inform the diggers whereabouts the fox 

 lay ; and we suppose he took his name from his 

 being so eager to get under ground. There is also 

 a second reason why he is better left at home. He 

 was seldom steady from wing^ if he was from foot, 

 and thus often the cause of riot. It was, however, 

 a matter of astonishment to behold those which 

 were very higldy bred making their way, as they 

 did, to the end of the longest chases, over strong 

 and wet countries, as well as through the thickest 

 covers, and so often making their appearance at 

 the end of them. At all events, if left behind, 

 they were sure to find their way home in the course 

 of the night, whatever the distance might be. One 



