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must have been against scent, and one of the best 

 trials of all was run in a blinding snowstorm. Surely, 

 then, these bloodhounds have olfactory powers of 

 more than average excellence ; at any rate, that 

 Monday they proved to us their possession of such. 

 The men who acted as quarry had no knowledge of 

 these hounds, no strongly smelling concoctions were 

 smeared over their boots ; and, indeed, they had 

 been standing over the shoe tops in snow during the 

 whole of the time the trials were taking place. So 

 the " clean shoe " must in the end have been sadly 

 water soaked. These bloodhounds did all we 

 expected them to do, even more, and we are quite 

 prepared to see the same hounds, under more favour- 

 able circumstances, hunt a man's trail or footsteps 

 though they be two hours old. Running singly, 

 each hound was mute ; together they gave tongue, 

 and their voices were very fine. It may be interest- 

 ing to state that, in their earlier training, all Mr. 

 Brough's hounds ran silently, whether hunting 

 together or separately; but, working them with a 

 noisy basset, they were tempted or encouraged to 

 throw their voices, as they now do when hunting in 

 company. 



The trials arranged by the Kennel Club were 

 advertised to take place on the racecourse adjoining 

 the Alexandra Palace on Wednesday morning, at 



