Next evening then, in the gloamin', he turned up at our lodgings, wi' two dogs at his heel, a greyhound and a lurchera lurcher is a coursing dog, a cross between a collie and a greyhound.

The greyhounds were Damen and Garrett, with some others, and the hare was an older man, who leapt and bounded forward, faster than I should have thought any but a youth could run; but then he knew what men were after him, and that 'twas a race for life.

His jet-black greyhound was "Hamlet."

The Greyhound is the oldest and most conservative of all dogs, and his type has altered singularly little during the seven thousand years in which he is known to have been cherished for his speed, and kept by men for running down the gazelle or coursing the hare.

The greyhound is a gentleman, respectful and self-respecting, and it shows that by the very carriage of its tail.