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smaller than Coomassie, and weighed no more than 41 lbs. 

 To see the two bitches in the slips together was really comical^ 

 and to look at, it was 20 to i on one ; nevertheless, the pigmy 

 could go a great pace, and was as clever as a monkey ; she 

 rendered an excellent account of herself, and only just lost 

 one of the grandest trials ever run. We remember asking 

 Mr. Hedley, during one of the intervals this year (1890), what 

 was the finest course he ever witnessed, and he immediately 

 said the one under notice. 



In 1887 a division once more occurred, the heroes being 

 Greater Scot and Herschel. The latter was a particularly 

 brilliant all-round perform,er, and would in all probability have 

 beaten his kennel-companion, especially as the latter was very 

 hard run with Jenny Jones. 



1888 witnessed the victory of Burnaby. The original fix- 

 ture had to be abandoned owing to frost, and the draw was 

 declared void. This year is indelibly fixed on our memory, as, 

 for the first time, we held a nomination and journeyed to 

 Liverpool to see her (it was a bitch) run ; but, owing to the 

 postponement, we returned to town after a bootless journey. 

 At the second time of asking, Herschel and Miss Glendyne 

 were drawn together, and there was great excitement when 

 they went to slips ; but the dog led and beat her decisively, 

 though she eventually won the Purse, one of her victims being 

 our above-mentioned hope and joy, who had won two 

 courses in great style before he unluckily met the crack. 

 Curiously enough, when the hare to which Miss" Glendyne 

 and Herschel had been slipped was picked up, it was found 

 to have but three legs, though this mutilation was not 

 apparent when the dogs were slipped, and she seemed to . 

 go strongly and well. Greater Scot raised but one flag ; 

 but Herschel survived until meeting Burnaby, when he was 

 seen to be spun out, and Mr. Pilkington's dog won rather 

 easily. The runner-up was Duke McPherson, an Irish dog 

 that had recently been purchased by Colonel North, who had 

 just risen on the horizon of the coursing world. His blue 



