20 DOMESTICATED DOGS. 



greyhound in coursing the hare was confined in England to the 

 class who could qualify for that purpose by the possession of 

 £ i oo a year in land ; and meetings for that purpose were held 

 only at Swaffham, Lowth, and Ashdown, where clubs were formed, 

 consisting of a limited number of noblemen and county gentlemen. 



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Captain Daintree's "King Cob." 



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.; 



