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the Duke of Leed's strain of bloodhounds, some of which were at 

 that time kept at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire. 



But dog stories, like the yarns of fishermen and 

 shooters, are apt to become rather monotonous 

 than otherwise, to say nothing of the exaggerations 

 that creep into them occasionally. However, the 

 authenticity of the above interesting account is 

 beyond reproach, hence it. was deemed worthy of 

 reproduction here. 



Captain Powell, wnriting in 1892 on the convicts 

 of Florida (London : Gay and Bird), gives some 

 interesting information as to the dogs used there in 

 tracking such criminals as may attempt to escape. 

 He says that, although bloodhounds were first used, 

 they were found quite useless, and at the present 

 time foxhounds were used for man-hunting in all 

 the southern convict camps. These hounds are 

 trained when young to follow the track of a man 

 who is sent to run a few miles through the woods ; 

 and there is no difficulty whatever in so training 

 them. Indeed, the author tells us that he has had 

 hounds that were " natural man-hunters/' He gives 

 an instance where some puppies he was carrying at 

 the time a convict tried to escape were put on his 

 trail, and followed it until he was captured. Captain 

 Powell corroborates what I have already written, 

 that it is a popular error to suppose that hounds 



