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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: or through the wood, or elsewhere, and couldn't see a bit of it. He a judge I'd make a better judge out of a barber's apprentice, or I'd hang him from his own pole. Uncle Crabb growls at the judge?everybody growls at the judge?except a wideawake few, who know the pedigrees, performances, condition, and weight of nearly every dog in the field; and they knew well enough that it was only the losers who grumbled, while they, as they pocketed the half-crowns, crowns, and pounds, were quite satisfied that nothing could be fairer than his decisions. Coursing judges come in fora larger share of grumbling than most men. But, as a class, though few in number, their characters stand usually above suspicion. Indeed, it is naturally so, because their employment depends on their fairness. To be sure, we have heard of a coursing-judge who was not quite scrupulous, and who was, on an occasion, asked to decide a match. The match came on, and off, and the judge undecided it. Up marched one of the owners in great dudgeon to the judge, and, as soon as he could get a word aside with him, said, in a tone of great vexation: ? The non-coursing reader may stare at the word weight; but dogs should be weighed in the scale to a pound, and their working weight as carefully ascertained and noted, as that of a prize-fighter or pedestrian is. Half a pound or a pound too much flesh on a dog will lose him a stake; and a pound and a half or two pounds renders him useless for some time. Why, what the deuce made you undecide it, 'Arry ? Didn't I send you as fine a haunch of mutton as ever you put your teeth in last night ? You did, my boy, quoth the judge; but so did he, nodding towards the other opponent, who was displaying equal anxiety for a word with the judge?so did he, and I weighed ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217732642 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021773264X |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 116 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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