14 Modern Dogs. 



Bloodhounds might be of use in smelling out any 

 secreted article or a man in hiding ; but an equally 

 well-trained retriever, or even terrier or poodle, 

 would do this description of work equally well. 



The bloodhound stands alone amongst all the 

 canine race in his fondness for hunting the footsteps 

 of a stranger ; any dog will hunt those of his master 

 or of someone he knows, and of a stranger, probably, 

 whose shoes are soaked in some stinking preparation 

 to leave a scent behind. The bloodhound requires 

 nothing but the so-called " clean shoe," and, once lay 

 him on the track, he hunts it as a foxhound would the 

 fox, or the harrier or beagle the hare. 



To proceed with the following description of man- 

 hunting with bloodhounds: 



The storm of Sunday had passed, and how deep 

 the snow lay in the streets and in the country places 

 on the Monday, are now a matter of history. The air 

 was keen and sharp, made so by a brisk north wind 

 which blew on the Monday morning, when we left 

 Euston station for Boxmoor, where we were to see 

 two couples of Mr. Brough's bloodhounds run in the 

 open country without assistance of any kind, and 

 under any conditions which might prevail at the time. 

 Surely the surroundings could not well have been 

 more unfavourable unless a rapid thaw, immediately 

 following the snow, had made them so. At Boxmoor 



