DOMESTICATED HUNTING-DOGS. 



'' Bellman," an Otteiliound ; pedigree unknuwu. 



THE OTTERHOUND. 



No hound whicli is now kept in Great Britain resembles the 

 southern hound so much as this, the difference being only in the 

 rough wiry coat, which has been obtained by careful breeding, to 

 enable them to resist the ill effects of the rough weather which the 

 breed have to encounter, whether in the chase of the hare, for which 

 they were originally employed in Wales, or for that of the otter, to 

 which they are now almost exclusively restricted. If, therefoi^e, the 

 reader turns to the description of the southern hound, and adds to 

 it a rough wiry coat with a profusion of rough whisker, he Avill at 

 once understand the form and nature of the otterhound, alias the 



