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with Canaradzo, Shepherdess, Jester, Chloe, Mespilus, London, 

 and Greater Scot, close up. It will be seen from the reduction 

 of the poll that the question has been altogether shirked by 

 quite a third of those who have answered others ; and we frankly 

 admit the difficulty that lies in making a satisfactory selection. 

 We were pleased to find that Lauderdale, who was a shining 

 light on the show bench, had not escaped notice ; undoubtedly 

 he was a grand specimen of the greyhound to look at, and we 

 believe, unlike most show dogs of the breed, was a useful per- 

 former in his day and secured a fair share of stakes. 



Fullerton could hold his own in any show ring, as also could 

 his dam and her peerless half-sister, whilst a really grand- 

 looking dog is Colonel North's Not Out by Greentick Miss 

 Glendyne, consequently own brother to Cagliostro. Handsome 

 is as handsome does, and though Master McGrath was, we are 

 told, by no means the sort to take a prize at a beauty show, 

 the sons and daughters of Greentick from Paris bitches are 

 pleasing both to the eye and the pocket. 



Beauty may only be skin deep, but that skin often covers a 

 conformation calculated to realise a courser's fondest hopes, and 

 long may it be so. 



The accounts of the most exciting and best contested 

 courses are somewhat meagre ; for instance, a man of such 

 experience as Mr. William Ellis names that between Master 

 McGrath and Bab-at-the-Bowster in the deciding course for 

 the Waterloo Cup, but omits to favour us with particulars from 

 his own point of view, which would surely be interesting ; but 

 another writer, choosing the same course, thus describes it : 



The bitch was going the faster, until the hare bearing to the 

 dog's side crossed the drain by a hare-bridge. In taking the drain 

 the bitch had to go round by a post at the end of the bridge, or 

 she would have made the turn a point just achieved by the dog ; 

 the course continued in three wide circles in which ' six of one and 

 half a dozen of the other ' was the cry ; at last the dog, on the 

 inside, wrenched and killed, thus winning a grandly contested 

 course. 



