British Dogs at Work 



to the hunted man when caught ? It is not 

 easy to convince the public that a blood- 

 hound is one of the mildest - mannered 

 gentlemen that ever put nose to line, and 

 that the man he hunts is immune from 

 harm. Yet it is so. One rarely finds a bad- 

 tempered bloodhound, and I can quite credit 

 the story of a man having tied his pursuer 

 to a tree and gone on his way rejoicing. 

 Many dogs will hunt any one they know, but 

 the peculiarity of the well-trained blood- 

 hound is that he will follow the line of a 

 stranger and stick to it, no matter how many 

 times it may have been crossed by others. 

 This freedom from change, as we term it, is 

 absolutely essential if bloodhounds are ever 

 again to be used in tracking down criminals. 

 There is no reason in the world why they 

 should not be called in to the aid of the 

 police, as they are in America. On the other 

 side of the Atlantic it is common enough to 

 hear of them running down evildoers many 

 hours after a crime has been committed, and 



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