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ferocious dog of story books and history, what a 

 scene there would have been. 



Sir E. Landseer, the animal painter, thoroughly 

 appreciated the bloodhound, its staid manner, its 

 majestic appearance. He, with Mr. Jacob Bell, kept 

 hounds of his own, and all know how he immortalised 

 them on canvas. His " Sleeping Bloodhound," now 

 in the National Gallery, was a portrait of Mr. Bell's 

 favourite Countess, run over and killed in a stable 

 yard ; and it was after her death she was painted 

 forming the subject, " A sleep that has no waking." 

 Graf ton, in the popular picture, " Dignity and 

 Impudence" was a bloodhound considered to be of 

 great merit in his day, now he would be regarded 

 as an ordinary specimen. 



Mr. Brough, writing in the Century Magazine, 

 about three years ago, goes at considerable length 

 into the training of bloodhounds, which is best done 

 by allowing the hound to hunt the " clean boot," 

 rather than one smeared with blood or anything else. 

 He says : 



Hounds work better when entered to one particular scent and 

 kept to that only, Mr. Brough never allows his hounds to hunt any- 

 thing but the clean boot, but begins to take his pups to exercise 

 on the roads when three or four months old, and a very short time 

 suffices to get them under good command. You can begin scarcely 

 too early to teach pups to hunt the clean boot. For the first few 

 times it is best to let them run some one they know ; afterwards it 



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