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that it takes some sense to win a great cup/^ Thus 

 Mr. Nightingale was wont to say of Ladylike that she 

 "had just sense enough not to be cunning; if the 

 hare went down hill_, she would follow her just far 

 enough,, and not too far, so as to stop herself ; but if 

 she did miscalculate, she went like a shot/'' Mr. A. 

 Graham^s British Lion had this faculty to a nicety, 

 as he would stop in two yards on the side of a hill. 

 He and Greenwich Time were both Fereneze cracks, 

 but British Lion was the best of them all. He was, 

 according to Mr. Nightingale, " a dog who would 

 run every day, and with a constitution against the 

 world — fine smooth action : even his failings were 

 respectable ; and if he was beaten, he ran well and 

 worked hard. Still, as a killer there was nothing 

 like Cerito for safety and science. Her measure was 

 perfection. She would never make a flying kill, but 

 draw herself back and be ready for the turns, and 

 kill them just on the bend or the broadside. Mocking 

 Bird threw herself at her hare farther off than any 

 greyhound I ever saw. Biotas was a very straight 

 and steady style. Both she and Wicked Eye were 

 wonderfully full of pluck; but, like Judge, they 

 would throw out a wild turn now and then.^^ 



Mr. A. Graham has several greyhound pictures. 

 There hang on his walls (althoagh.the greater part 

 of them and the coursing cups are at Limekilns), the 

 companions of many a proud and happy day — Gil- 

 bertfield and Black-eyed Susan (the sire and the dam 

 of Goth and Vandal), and Oh Yes ! Oh Yes ! ! 



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