It is not a class question, because many of our people are amused bywhippetracing and coursing.
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I have heard it alleged that the miner is fond of hiswhippetand racing and so forth.
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What does he feel about the coal miner who goes home and makes a few bob out of breeding whippets?
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The rabbit started to run, in a strange land with the two whippets bearing down upon it; and the rabbit never had a chance.
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When the miners trained their whippets on beef, they produced us all the coal we wanted.
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He is stated to spend a great deal of his time followingwhippetracing when he ought to be looking for work.
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There is no inherent reason why they should not also have some say in horse-racing tracks,whippetracing and every other kind of sport.
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There is no intention whatever that sheepdogs, military tournaments, jumping exhibitions, whippets, or anything like that should be interfered with in any way.
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Their sport in the main is whippets and greyhounds.
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The mining community and the farmers raced whippets asd hounds by aniseed trailing, which many of us have watched and thoroughly enjoyed.
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He said that he was taking a risk—it is more like backing awhippetwith a wooden leg.
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The whippets enjoyed a bit of it, too.
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So anxious and eager was he to get the message over that he was like awhippeton steroids bounding up and down.
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It will not stop people going out with a greyhound, or awhippet, or a lurcher, and running hares.
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The whippets chase the hare at a different place from its track.
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