468 UPLAND SHOOTING. 



Inclosed park coursing is not an experiment, as the 

 sport has been in vogue for a number of years in England, 

 Australia, and in California. 



At Hutchinson, Kan., a model park has been com- 

 pleted within the past year, and arrangements have been 

 made for a large meeting annually. 



There is a growing popularity for the park coursing, 

 and we will undoubtedly see parks established near many 

 of the Eastern cities. 



The American Coursing Club meeting at Great Bend, 

 Kan., is the national and grand meeting of this country, 

 and will compare favorably with the great Waterloo meet- 

 ing at Altcar, England. The meeting is held in an open 

 field, or on a large ranch, comprising about seventeen sec- 

 tions in a body. It is situated on a vast plain, called the 

 Cheyenne Plains, and is as level as ground can be, afford- 

 ing a grand view for a mile. The jack-rabbits have always 

 found this well suited to their wants, and recently have 

 been well protected from hunters and dogs, and are in no 

 sense artificially prepared for the trials, but are hunted 

 in their natural state. They often flee to the elevated 

 ground, three miles from the center of the plains, and 

 escape their pursuers, the swift greyhounds. 



At 9 o'clock in the morning of a pleasant October day, 

 the beaters are in line, and a long train of carriages are 

 close in the rear; and as they march across the level 

 stretch of country, with every mind centered on the one 

 object that will cause the blood to tingle' in the veins, the 

 cry is given, "There he goes!" and a long pair of ears 

 rises like a phantom, and speeds away, challenging the 

 dogs for a trial of speed. 



The quick-sighted greyhounds in an instant jump to 

 the limit of the slips, and the slipper races away with 

 them for a few feet, and then the word is given by the 

 judge; the cord is pulled, and away they go like a rocket. 



