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hand, are certainly incapable of leading the ideas 

 of others. 



An otter-hound, when the otter is under water, 

 can only speak to the '^ chain," or air-bubbles, 

 which ascend to the surface. 



A deer that has " taken soil " in a river can 

 only l^e spoken to by a liound by the bubbles, or 

 by the spots of foam from the mouth of the deer, 

 which the deer leaves on the line in which he 

 swims. Also, a hound can speak to his passage 

 if any twigs or boughs touch the deer as he 

 swims by. My liound J3hinder, whose jDortrait 

 still hangs in my dining-room, always was the 

 foremost to help me in these contingencies ; and 

 some other foxhounds used to stag were of similar 

 service. 



Of all the noses I ever had in my kennel, my 

 bloodhound, the well-known ^' Druid" of the New 

 Forest, had the most curiously sensitive; and, what 

 is more, he possessed a brain which, by the most 

 evident thought or reflection, gave him the power 

 to use, under all emergencies, the information he 

 arrived at through the poAver of scent. Thus, witli 

 tlie deer, in the New Forest, to l3c sure of a find, 

 I could not, without close investigation, heedlessly 



