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cry uttered by the doc was distressing to nic, 



excited even as I was by tlie sport of the wild 



hour. The wire cartridge of ^' double Bs," from 



the first barrel of the John Manton gun put an 



end to all further suffering ; but, for all that, 



I would rather not have slain that doe. 



Druid came into my possession when about a 



twelvemonth old, and entered at his first deer 



under my tuition. Having to teach him to draw 



the woods, find his deer, and act independently 



of a huntsman, or assistance from anv other hound, 



I never in any one way, when I saw the cause of a 



check, and how he could be set right, interfered 



by a cast or otherwise. • The consequence of this 



was, that, being left entirely to himself, his extreme 



sagacity became a match for any unfavourable 



contingency of the day ; and, let the scent 



be bad or good, he Avas sure of his deer 



in a long or short time, unless by any accident 



he changed on a vieiu to a fresh deer. A view 



occasionally induced him to change, but if fresh 



deer crossed his line, and he did not see them, 



he never varied from the line of scent that he 



was ori. This shows a very curious discriminating 



power in the nose of a hound thus to particularize 



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