HARE AND HOUND

Sir, Man, said Mark Twain, is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Sir, Man, said Mark Twain, is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Your photograph, on the front page of today's issue (February 26th), of a ravening greyhound about to savage a terrified hare at the annual Waterloo Cup Coursing "festivities" in the UK, bears out his observation in a particularly sickening manner. When, one wonders, may our blushes cease? Yours, etc.,

Mount Pleasant,

Waterford.