usually adopted in private, the other in that more open display which is known as 'public coursing.' In the former of these sports, the destruction of the hare, per fas et nefas, seems too often the sole object of those engaged in it, and their only limitation consists in the number of the dogs, which no one but a decided 'pot hunter' allows to exceed a brace at a time. On the other hand, the public courser considers the hare as the only available means of testing the powers of his greyhounds, and these animals are not so much regarded by him as competing with the hare as with one another. It is true that there are many exceptions, some private coursers being as scrupulous in giving poor puss every fair chance, and as watchful to detect every good point in their greyhounds, as the most ardent public courser can desire, but still they are the honourable exceptions; and the general run of private coursers care for little besides the kill, and to them a ' good killer' is the ne plus ultra of the greyhound. This defect is by no means necessarily attendant upon private coursing; but unless a judge of the course is always selected, I am afraid it will generally be the result, for without his watchful eye no one will admit the inferiority of his own dog, but all will rest satisfied that they have attained perfection, if they have got a dog which will stand the sole test of merit, from which there is no appeal, viz. the bagging of the hare.' Every other point may be disputed or explained away, but the kill is tangible and evident, and therefore it is always laid hold of and paraded by the greyhound-owner, where there is no appointed judge to put the various points at their proper level. The public courser will