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those breeds which are notoriously crossed with the bulldog. In 

 the early days of public coursing, Lord Orford, Lord Kivers, Mr. 

 Etwall, Mr. Kaimes, Sir James Boswell and Mr. Fyson all adopted 

 this cross, and their example was followed in more recent times by 

 Mr. Lawrence, who, like Mr. Etwall with ' Egypt,' used his brother 

 6 Lopez ' at the stud with success. These two dogs had a double 

 strain of the bulldog, taking one through their sire 4 Vraye Foy,' 

 who was twelve removes from the bulldog, and another from their 

 dam f Elf,' the ninth in descent from that breed. But though ten 

 years ago it looked as if the stock of ' Vraye Foy ' would rival that 

 of ' Figaro ' and ' Foremost,' yet it is now apparent that the son of 

 ' King Cob ' has almost extinguished them both, and that the bull- 

 dog strains exhibited in ' The Czar,' ' Egypt,' and ' Lopez,' have not 

 been so successful as I formerly anticipated. ' Blue Hat,' ' Patent,' 

 and ' Chloe,' are the three best modern instances of greyhounds 

 in which the bulldog cross is exhibited, and they all possess it 

 very remotely, the first getting it through the f Czar,' who was 

 descended from Mr. Etwall's ' Eurus,' on the side of his dam, the 

 second from 6 Egypt,' and the third from c Lopez ' these three, 

 however, speak strongly in favour of the strain ; but Mr. Hanley, of 

 the 1st Life Guards, who has persevered in trying the experiment 

 to the sixth remove, has as yet done nothing to show its advantage. 

 Commencing with a granddaughter of ' King Cob,' which he put 

 to e Chicken,' a thoroughbred bulldog, he has successively put the 

 produce to ' Blunder ' and ' Preston,' bred by himself, but without 

 very illustrious parentage ; then to ' Bedlamite ' and ' Brightsteel,' 

 and since then to his dog ( His Grace,' but as yet the produce have 



