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their food can then be thoroughly digested before the morning's exercise, and if, as is frequently 

 the case, they have given them the advantage of a gentle run in the evening, the process of 

 digestion is materially benefited. A full stomach is equally antagonistic to comfort in dog 

 and man when violent exercise has to be undergone, but a gentle walk some two or three 

 hours after meal time is beneficial alike to both. With reference to the use of bones, where 

 there are more than one Greyhound in each kennel when they are given out, the presence of 

 an attendant is most desirable, to prevent the fighting which most naturally will ensue. 

 Horseflesh, beef, and mutton, are each and all beneficial to the Greyhound when in training, 

 the last-named more especially so in the case of delicately-constitutioned dogs who, when in hard 

 work, refuse their food and require tempting. Pork and veal should be eschewed, as also 

 those portions of the others which contain small bones, which are apt to injure the dogs who 

 eat them. 



Of modern Greyhounds Lord Lurgan's Master M'Grath has more especially immortalised 

 himself by winning the Waterloo Cup three times, an unparalleled feat since the extension 

 of the cup to a sixty-four dog stake. Opinions differ as to whether he would not have 

 carried off the prize in four successive years, but his going amiss in the third rendered his 

 defeat an easy matter, though he avenged himself twelve months later. Master M'Grath 

 having been a dog so much above the average his pedigree may be of interest to our readers, 

 so we produce it here in extenso for their benefit. 



