Outing . tood the meth-ods of coursing in practice with the Celtsand described them fully ; and it is curi-ous to turn from his descriptions of thesport as practiced in Greece and Italy1,800 years ago and witness the samesport, regulated by the same main laws,going on over the Altcar meadows almostwhile we write.* The laws regulating coursing have beenvaried in form, but in spirit they are, asframed by the National Coursing Club to-day, identical with the first English lawsformulated by the Duke of Norfolk in thereign of Elizabeth, and these were found-ed on practice established by long tra-di
Outing . tood the meth-ods of coursing in practice with the Celtsand described them fully ; and it is curi-ous to turn from his descriptions of thesport as practiced in Greece and Italy1,800 years ago and witness the samesport, regulated by the same main laws,going on over the Altcar meadows almostwhile we write.* The laws regulating coursing have beenvaried in form, but in spirit they are, asframed by the National Coursing Club to-day, identical with the first English lawsformulated by the Duke of Norfolk in thereign of Elizabeth, and these were found-ed on practice established by long tra-ditions. The first English coursing clubwas established by Lord Orford, an en-thusiastic courser, in 1776. These insti-tutions have steadily increased ever sinceand now all of any standing are repre-sented by, and in fact from, the NationalCoursing Club, a body representative ofthe coursers of Great Britain and Irelandand also, to be precise, of the Kingdom * Written in February, i88q. 434 OUTING FOR <\.^ READY FOR A COURSE. of Man. Under the auspices of thisbody the great event of the year, theWaterloo Cup, known as the BlueRiband of the Leash, is annually runfor on Lord Seftons estate at Altcar,some ten miles from Liverpool. In years gone by the fun of the greatcoursing carnival began with the roaddrive, which resembled in character,though the multitude was less, the roadbetween London and Epsom on a Derbyday. Now the journey is by most peo-ple performed by rail, and is consequent-ly more prosaic. At the late meetingthere was a daily attendanceof nearly twenty thousand spec-tators, most of them genuinelyinterested in the events, manyof them directly so, andall of them keenly appre-ciative and very muchin earnest. Others there alwaysare, and not a few, whoare there becauseit is a popularspectacle, whileof the sport theyknow nothing,being invariablyo f t h e opinionthat the dog thatkills wins, and are loud in pro-test that itaint fair to runthat big dogagin the littleu
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