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direction of a small plantation. The hounds had to 

 pass this, and then enter the road on the run home. 



The latter portion of the track was along the 

 same line by each man who acted as the quarry, 

 thus making the trials more difficult tests for the 

 hound ; though those that ran first must necessarily 

 have had the advantage, as the latter part of the 

 road was less foiled by one or two men than it would 

 have been by half a dozen. Two stakes were pro- 

 vided, the one for the " clean boot," the other for 

 the " not clean boot." The latter in this instance 

 meant that the shoe soles of the man acting as 

 quarry had been rubbed with horseflesh, the only 

 material at hand for the purpose. As a fact, the 

 second stake never ought to have been arranged, 

 and it is by no means to the credit of a bloodhound 

 that he should require such assistance ; the status of 

 the trials was thus reduced to the commonplace 

 " hound dog" trails, so popular in the rural districts 

 of the North of England. As matters progressed, 

 the bloodhounds actually hunted the clean boot 

 better than they did the soiled one, and we would 

 suggest that in future, when the " not clean boot" 

 is to be run, terriers rather than bloodhounds should 

 be utilised for the work. 



However, in due course one of the keepers out of 

 the show was despatched as quarry, with a start of 



