Outing . THEY DIVIDED THE WATERLOO CUP. THE WATERLOO CUP. BY HUGH DALZIEL. COURSING is one of the most an-cient of sports and is indissolublyconnected with the Celtic before the elder Xenophonwrote his Art of Hunting with Dogsthe Celtic tribes coursed the deer, wolf,hare, etc., with greyhounds, and it seemsunquestionable that the Irish Celts in-troduced these dogs to the British Is-lands. Xenophon knew nothing of thosefleet-footed hounds that run their preydown by superior speed, and it was to fillup the gap in his cynegeticus that fivehundred years later Flavins Arrianus, or,a
Outing . THEY DIVIDED THE WATERLOO CUP. THE WATERLOO CUP. BY HUGH DALZIEL. COURSING is one of the most an-cient of sports and is indissolublyconnected with the Celtic before the elder Xenophonwrote his Art of Hunting with Dogsthe Celtic tribes coursed the deer, wolf,hare, etc., with greyhounds, and it seemsunquestionable that the Irish Celts in-troduced these dogs to the British Is-lands. Xenophon knew nothing of thosefleet-footed hounds that run their preydown by superior speed, and it was to fillup the gap in his cynegeticus that fivehundred years later Flavins Arrianus, or,as he styled himself, the Younger Xeno-phon, wrote a book on coursing. Ar-rian was born in the first or very early inthe second century of the Christian era,and he declared the greyhound to be aCeltic dog, and wrote a description thatapplies accurately to the contestants forthe Waterloo Cup of 1889, while his noteson the sport of coursing the hare provehim to have been a thorough sportsman,with a perfect u
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