30 Modern Dogs. 



there has been no better hound in this respect than 

 Cromwell, owned by Mr. E. Millais, but bred by Mr. 

 W. Nash in 1884, by Nestor Daisy. The head 

 properties of this hound were so fine that on his 

 death, in 1892, a model was taken of them by Mr. 

 Millais. But here a list cannot be given of all the ex- 

 cellent bloodhounds that have made their appearance 

 of late years, the dog-show catalogues afford a better 

 selection than I could supply here, and the owners 

 of the kennels named above are certainly to be com- 

 plimented on the progress they have made with the 

 bloodhound, notwithstanding the difficulty to be sur- 

 mounted in rearing the puppies. 



Mr. Edwin Brough, no doubt the most experienced 

 breeder of the present day, believes the modern 

 bloodhound to be much speedier on foot than in the 

 old days of the Mosstroopers, and there are now, 

 in 1892, certainly more really good bloodhounds to 

 be found in this country, than has ever been the 

 case. Perhaps Bono, Bardolph, and Burgundy, 

 from the Scarborough kennels, generally have never 

 been excelled, and now, in 1892, the two latter, 

 as Bono had done earlier on, often win the special 

 cup awarded to the best dog in the show. 



The pedigree of our present bloodhounds has 

 been well kept during the past generation or so, and 

 their reliability in the Stud Book is undoubted. 



