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Ireland, “‘ Coomassie,” as the best Newmarket winner, or “Cana- 
radzo” and “ King Death,” as the most successful from Scotland 
and the North of England, all are alike combinations of two or 
more different strains. The last-named are, it is true, only made 
up of two distinct strains, namely, the Lancashire in “ Beacon” 
and the Scotch in “Scotland Yet,” but the others are compounded 
of a much greater variety, chiefly, however, traceable to “ King 
Cob,” who was of true Newmarket and Bedfordshire blood. In 
making his choice, the young courser may, therefore, entirely dis- 
regard all but the individual greyhound from which his selections 
take their descent. Since the passing of the Ground Game Act 
hares have become so scarce in many of the old countries used for 
public coursing that a new plan has been adopted in order to 
keep these meetings up. This consists in enclosing by a hare- 
proof fence two or more hundred acres of grass, and supplying 
this area with hares bred in districts where coursing cannot be, 
or is not, carried on. This has encouraged the breeding of a very 
fast yet clever greyhound, generally descended in many lines from 
“King Cob,” and in almost or quite as many from Scotch and. 
Lancashire strains united in the late Mr. J. Campbell’s kennel, by 
the union of Mr. Borron’s “ Bluelight” with his “Scotland Yet,” 
of nearly pure Scotch blood. No modern dog has, however, pre- 
sented this union to a greater extent than “Master M‘Grath,” 
who had three lines of “ King Cob” united with about equal pro- 
portions of the Scotch and Lancashire strains. Most of the win- 
ning dogs at these enclosed meetings are descended from “Cardinal 
York,” a great grandson of “King Cob,” combined with similar 
strains to those united to form “Master M‘Grath.” They have 
come chiefly through “Bab at the Bowster,’ descended from 
“ Canaradzo,” one of Mr. Campbell’s best dogs—to produce “ Bed- 
fellow,” “ Misterton,” “ Ptarmigan,” ‘Marshal MacMahon,” and 
“ Bothel Park.” Whether or no these dogs would have been able 
to compete with success in a more severe country cannot be 
settled, but there is, no doubt that the fast Lancashire and Scotch 
strains of the members of the Altcar Club were able to hold their 
own at Amesbury and Ashdown twenty-five years ago, and there- 
fore it may be presumed that they would be able to do so now. 
The further consideration of this variety of the dog, relating 
