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were that no dog had first-rate scenting powers 

 unless it was long in the muzzle, and also had 

 the wings of the nostrils largely developed, 

 thus enabling the dog to open its nostrils very 

 wide, to catch the faintest taint of scent on the 

 breeze. In both respects after-experience has 

 seemed to prove that the observant old man 

 was perfectly right, and that these points, rather 

 than mere breadth, were the essential ones 

 required. 



In furtherance of this view attention may be 

 called to the Podencos of Spain and Portugal, 

 which, though they resemble somewhat a prick- 

 eared lurcher in appearance, pack together like 

 hounds, and appear able to hunt the faintest 

 scent, on ground baked by a southern sun. 

 Years ago when at Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, 

 the late Mr. Henry Davies, who then had the 

 chief management of a pack of English harriers 

 that hunted the district, mentioned to me that 

 they hardly ever killed a hare without being 

 helped by a Podenco joining in the hunt, and 

 assisting them when they were run out of scent. 

 It is an interesting fact that, in a very early 

 picture by De Bridt of hawking in the seven- 

 teenth century that till lately hung at Kirby 

 Hall, there is an excellent portrait of a Podenco. 

 There is also a likeness of a Blenheim spaniel, 

 not the snub-nosed dog seen at a modern dog- 

 show, but with a muzzle similar to any working 

 spaniel of Devonshire or Cornwall of the present 

 time. 



Regarding hounds of the black St. Hubert 

 breed, these were bloodhounds, and unless the 

 Kerry Beagles can trace their descent from them, 

 the only pack known to the writer was that 



