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in the fourtli ties, and Waterloo was drawn, and lie 

 never fairly got over it. The crowd stood just like a 

 pillar of stone where the hare wanted to come, and 

 no persuasion could get them back. Seeing Water- 

 loo do his work right under their noses was a thing 

 which the Caledonians, however right-minded gene- 

 rally on these matters, could not forego. 



INIalleny ]Moor, sis miles from Edinburgh on the 

 Lanark road, was another great Scottish meet. 

 Many of the courses were run off on the arable, and 

 the hares vv^ere driven for it out of the field at the back 

 of the Kirk of Curry. The severe hill behind the 

 farm of Kinleath was what the coursers most dreaded, 

 and it was accordingly a great thing to be drawn 

 low dov/n on the card. If the hare raced across the 

 fiat and put her head for the hill, it was death to the 

 dogs, as when they did reach the top they were pretty 

 certain to divide on a fresh hare in the whins. It 

 was here that Neville won a great hundred-dog stake, 

 and Leven Water ran up. '^Neville," says Mr. 

 Nightingale, " was very smooth and fast, and opened 

 the pace from t]ie slips, and, for a big dog, a good 

 worker. Bennett^s Rocket was the fastest I ever 

 saw ; J udge, who had magnificent forelegs, and 

 Neville next, but perhaps Neville was the fastest of 

 the two." Jamie Forrest also won a stake of equal 

 amount over The Moor, and he too was " a rare dog, 

 and the best of his day.^^ 



But a truce to old leash times. We slipped 

 down from Fereneze past Paisley, which alone keeps 



