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was slow in pursuit, he could not, like the modern 

 fox-hound, run up to his game, yet, from the extraor- 

 dinary acuteness of his olfactory organs, he could 

 always trace it unerringly, whatever distance it might 

 be ahead. In 1 124, Richard the First chased a 

 hart from Sherwood Forest to Barnsdale in Yorkshire, 

 and there lost him ; he therefore made proclamation 

 at Tunhill, and various other places in the neighbour- 

 hood of Barnsdale, that no person shall chase, kill, or 

 hunt the same deer, in order that he might return to 

 his lair in the forest of Sherwood. Tims, in early 

 times, w^hen hounds from exhaustion being unable to 

 continue the chase, proclamation w^as made in all towns 

 and villages near w4iich it was supposed the hart might 

 remain, that no person might hunt or kill him, so that 

 he might safely return to his forest ; and the foresters 

 were ordered to harbour the said hart, and by degrees 

 bring him back to the forest ; and the deer was ever 

 after a ' hart royal proclaimed.* 



DOG PHYSIOGNOMISTS. 



Whenever speaking to a dog, whether encouragingly 

 or reprovingly, the sportsman should endeavour to 

 look what he means, and the dog will understand 

 him. The dog will understand the look if he does 

 not the w^ords. The sportsman should never with 

 a smile on his countenance punish a dog ; nor 

 commend him w4ien he has done w^ell but w^ith an 

 apparent hearty goodwill y the dog will then take in- 

 terest in obeying him. Gamekeepers and dog-breakers 

 are often odd fellows, and seldom natives of the place 

 where they follow their avocation. Many of them are 



