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sisting of a limited number of noblemen and county gentlemen. 
Between 1840 and 1850, however, the public at large began to 
think themselves entitled to share in the sport, many tenant: 
farmers and professional men, without possessing the fee-simple 
of a single acre, beginning to keep-and use the greyhound. 
Gradually coursing has become more and more general and popu- 
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lar, and, in the present day, wherever there is an area of tolerably 
level country suited to the preservation and coursing of hares, 
meetings are instituted, either for the use of the public in general, 
or for clubs, which almost in all cases are open to all classes of good 
sportsmen. As a consequence, fully five thousand greyhounds are 
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