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and partly from the short distance to scent. But now-a-days all 

 this is altered, and a two or three mile course may be reckoned 

 on at Altcar or Southport almost as certainly as at Ashdown 

 or Newmarket, partly from the better feeding of the hares and 

 partly from the introduction of fresh blood through the hares of the 

 latter counties. As a consequence of these changes, and of the 

 facilities afforded by the railways to the breeders of all parts of 

 the country, such an interchange of these breeds has taken place 

 that there is really no locality in which a strain peculiar to 

 itself can be said to exist. Whether we take " Master M'Grath," 

 as representing Ireland, " Coomassie," as the best Newmarket 

 winner, or " Canaradzo " and " King Death," as the most success- 

 ful from Scotland and the North of England, all are alike com- 

 binations 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 disregard all but the individual grey- 

 hound from which his selections take their descent. 



The further consideration of this variety of the doo-, relating 

 to its breeding, management, and use, will be considered under 

 Part II. 



II.-THE DEERHOUND' AND ROUGH GREYHOUND. 



The deerhound is a magnificent animal in size and symmetry of 

 frame, the dog often standing 28 inches high at the shoulder- 



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and though possessing almost as much lightness and elegance 

 of proportion as its congener the smooth greyhound, yet often 



