Had you seen her you must have admired her, and would not have wondered at my predilection, and at my coursing her so much.

She ran so fast, so much, and so long in my service, that she actually ran off her legs; so that, in the latter part of her life, I was under the necessity of working and using her only as a terrier, in which quality she still served me many years.
Coursing one day a hare, which appeared to me uncommonly big, I pitied my poor bitch, being big with pups, yet she would course as fast as ever.

I could follow her on horseback only at a great distance.

At once I heard a cry as it were of a pack of hounds--but so weak and faint that I hardly knew what to make of it.

Coming up to them, I was greatly surprised.