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comes the black dog with the white breast and the 

 white neck mark, going like a whirlwind twelve lengths 

 ahead of Borealis. She looks, in fact, like a mere 

 terrier scuffling after him, and when she did get up, 

 the Irish dog had raced right into his hare, and flung 

 it up half dead into the air. Raper said that he had 

 never seen a greyhound go so fast, and the Cup 

 seemed to be over. Then Woman in Black delights 

 the Irish division once more, and Ask Mamma and 

 Charming May ran as sweetly as ever. Except Lady 

 Lyons, there was nothing more beautiful than " May" 

 on the field. Ghillie Callum then gives the Scotch- 

 men a good turn, and fastens on his hare, when he 

 kills so savagely that they are obliged to bite his ear 

 before he will resign it. Two other dogs cannot settle 

 the knotty point, and so they dash away and jump a 

 wide ditch, holding the hare between them. Luncheon 

 succeeds, and the coursers are found in carriages, or 

 on the top of them, on the grass, or sitting on a rail 

 " transacting business" with hampers and parcels 

 which would have done Epsom no discredit. Even a 

 horse and gig rolling in a ditch doesn't rouse them. 

 They were a singularly quiet and well-behaved crowd, 

 and though the stewards had left them pretty nearly 

 to their own devices, in despair of handling so many, 

 they encroached but a very few yards. It was a fine, 

 genial day, and each man seemed bent on good- 

 humoured enjoyment, and an oath or coarse word was 

 almost unheard. 



Luncheon over, and we got into position for the last 

 time that day, and all along the Engine-house 

 Meadows. For some time it was hopeless to begin, as 

 " fur" was too plentiful ; but at last they came off the 

 fallows by singles, and Master M'Grath was slipped 

 once more. There was no enthusiasm over this 

 course. On he sped raking lengths away from Hard 

 Lines, but after turning his hare he tumbled and got 

 shaken, as he put in no really good work afterwards, 



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