600 The Dog Book 



evidence in that direction, we present an extract from that exceedingly scarce 

 work, the "Sportsman's Annual" for 1839. Who the editor was we have 

 not been able to ascertain, but it contains a dozen beautifully executed and 

 coloured dogs' heads drawn specially for this number, seemingly the first of 

 what was to be an annual, but which was only issued the one year. We re- 

 produce a number of the heads of the hounds, by Landseer, Hancock, and 

 Cooper; that of the harrier by the later being, in our opinion, the most beau- 

 tifully executed head of any dog we have ever seen. 



In the letterpress regarding the bloodhound we find the following ex- 

 tract credited to "a small quarto volume of fifteen pages, printed in 1611, 

 and very scarce": 



"The hounds which we call St. Hubert's hounds, are commonly all 

 blacke, yet neuertheless, their race is so mingled in these days that we find 

 them of all colours. These are the hounds which the Abbots of St. Hubert 

 haue always kept, or some of their race or kind, in honour or remembrance of 

 the saint, which was a hunter with S. Eustace. Whereupon we may con- 

 ceiue that (by the Grace of God) all good huntsmen shall follow them into 

 paradise. To returne unto my former purpose, this kind of dogges hath been 

 dispersed through the countries of Henault, Lorayne, Flaunders, and 

 Burgoyne. They are mighty of body, neuertheless their legges are low and 

 short, likewise they are not swift, although they be very good of scent, hunt- 

 ing chaces which are farre stranggled, fearing neither water nor cold and 

 doe more couet the chaces that smell, as foxes, bore, and like, than other, 

 because they find themselues neither of swiftnes nor courage to hunt and 

 kill the chaces that are lighter and swifter. The bloudhounds of this colour 

 proue good, especially those that are cole-blacke, but I make no great account 

 to breede on them or to keepe the kind, and yet I found a booke which a 

 hunter did dedicate to a Prince of Lorayne, which seemed to loue hunting 

 much, wherein was a blason which the same hunter gaue to his bloudhound, 

 called Soullard, which was white, whereupon we may presume that some 

 of the kind proue white sometimes, but they are not of the kind of the 

 Greffiers, or Bouxes, which we haue at these days." The hound Soullyard 

 was a white hound and was a son of a distinguished dog of the same 

 name: 



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" My name came first from holy Hubert's race, 

 Soullyard, my sire, a hound of singular grace." 



