1 6 Modern Dogs. 



A man was selected for the purpose, and the 

 course he had to run was pointed out to him. The 

 thickly lying snow made locomotion very difficult, 

 and as even now there came a recurrence of the 

 storm, a comparatively short start was given. In 

 seven minutes from the time the man had set off, 

 Danger was laid on his track, and, picking up the 

 line in an instant, went away at a quick rate along the 

 hillside. We tried to run with the hound, but to do 

 this in the deep snow and keep Danger in sight was 

 impossible. After following him some six hundred 

 yards or so, we had to make our way to the tiny knot 

 of spectators on the hilltop, and once there saw that 

 he had lost the line, after running it well for some- 

 thing less than half a mile. In making a cast round, 

 he unfortunately struck the wind of the spectators, 

 and came back to them. Nor did he seem very 

 persevering in attempting to regain the scent, giving 

 us the idea that in previous trials he had not been 

 allowed to depend upon his own exertions to recover 

 a lost trail. 



Mr. Brough's hounds included Barnaby (one of 

 the couple brought to London at the instance of the 

 late Commissioner of Police), and Beeswing, with 

 Belhus and Blueberry, their offspring. The two first 

 named are well-known hounds on the show bench. 

 Barnaby had run at the Warwick trials ; the younger 



