28 Modern Dogs. 



which he showed sport in Buckinghamshire. From 

 here they went into the kennels of Count Couteulx 

 de Canteleu, in France, where they have been useful 

 in hunting both wild deer and wild boar. 



Prior to this Mr. Selby Lowndes had several 

 couples of bloodhounds, in Whaddon Chase, where 

 occasionally they had a run after deer. One of his 

 hounds, named Gamester, bore a great reputation as 

 a man-hunter, and on more than one occasion was 

 useful in capturing thieves. This hound appears 

 to have been a waif from some other kennel, for he 

 was purchased from a hawker for ten pounds, the 

 latter using him as a protection, and to run under 

 his van. 



Then it is said, bloodhounds have been owned by 

 the verderers in connection with the New Forest in 

 Hampshire, but they were known as Talbots, and 

 most of these hounds were smaller than our modern 

 hounds. Mr. T. Nevil had a small pack at Chillend, 

 near Winchester, dark coloured hounds black St. 

 Huberts they were called ; a well-known writer in 

 Bailey's Magazine^ gives a long description of 

 them, which, he says, were descendants of the pack 

 of which William Rufus was master. It was said 

 they would hunt anything, from " the jackal and the 

 lordly stag, to the water-rat and such ' small deer.' ' 

 At the present time there is no pack of bloodhounds 



