be more in evidence and worked with advantage. A good trade should spring up 

 between New Zealand and California for gun dogs and greyhounds. The passage is 

 one of less than three weeks, and the freight inconsiderate. All over South America 

 gun dogs and greyhounds are required. There is some shooting in New Guinea, but 

 the bush is very dense and the natives not always agreeable to the visitation of 

 th,e man with a gun. Some very nice dogs are to be found in the Hawaiian 

 Islands, notably at ever-glorious and salubrious Honolulu, the Paradise of the 

 Pacific. And within a few days' hail is the Golden Gate and the ever-bountiful 

 lands that slope down to the North Pacific and the longed-for port by the voyagers 

 from the far East and the farther South. Here, of course, we will find gun dogs in 

 great variety, and many greyhounds. Some years ago several of the best running dogs 

 in England were imported by sportsmen in California. And that stock is in the Golden 

 State now. Gun dogs are not only esteemed as gun dogs or for their work, but also 

 for their good looks. The English setter is bred in all his attractive loveliness and 

 usefulness all the way up the Pacific Coast as far as British Columbia. And it is in 

 the last mentioned province that some of the most beautiful of the blue-ticked, long 

 and silver silk-like coated setting dogs have been bred. Taking the whole of the North 

 American Continent we will find it one abiding place for gun dogs of the highest merit ; 

 and as it is well known, Americans and Canadians have always been circumspect and 

 generous in their importations of gun dogs from Europe, and, consequently, have 

 possessed themselves of specimens that are not only good to look upon, but easy to 

 train and delightful to shoot over. 



Whippet Dogs and Whippet Racing 



THE whippet is a greyhound-like dog, and is the fastest of all dogs at his weight or 

 height. In some instances they have been crossed with Italian greyhounds, but 

 these alliances are apt to bring about inferior whippets for racing or catching 

 rabbits, either on their own ground or at rabbit-coursing or snap-dog matches. In 

 rabbit-coursing, where the rabbits have previously been caught and turned down on 

 unknown ground (to the rabbit) before a brace of whippets, it is the dog that catches 

 the rabbit that wins the course, and the winner of the majority of a given number of 

 courses wins the wager for its owner or connections. Snap-dog coursing that is, 

 running rabbits down with whippets in small and enclosed places, the rabbit being 

 given little "law," is not considered a sportsmanlike action, and is practiced only as a 

 means of gambling. Whippets have long been declared a pure breed, and this dog was 

 first recognized as such by the English Kennel Club. 



The Whippet 



Whippet racing is an old sport and the pastime of working men in England. He 

 has been called the poor man's race-horse, as indeed he is, the dog providing sport and 

 a means of speculation for men of slender means. Whippet racing is carried on right 

 through the year in the Northwest and North of England. Of late years it has become 



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