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deer stalking may be surmised by a list that appears 

 in Mr. Weston Bell's monograph of the variety 

 (1892). Here some fifty-eight forests are named, 

 and in but about seven of them is the deerhound 

 kept. The collie is now more frequently trained 

 and used to track the wounded stag, because he 

 works more slowly, and is therefore less liable to 

 unduly scare and alarm the deer. From the earliest 

 institution of dog shows, classes have been pro- 

 vided for the deerhound, and these have resulted in a 

 number of excellent animals being benched of a uni- 

 formity and quality that our excellent friend Charles 

 St. John would scarcely have thought possible, and 

 Mr. M'Neil would have deemed an impossibility. 



There is no handsomer dog than the deerhound 

 he has the elegance of shape, the light airy appear- 

 ance of the greyhound, a hard, crisp, and picturesque 

 jacket, either of fawn or grey brindle, an eye as 

 bright as that of the gazelle, but loving, still sharp 

 and intelligent ; and a good specimen has not a bad 

 feature about him. His disposition is of the best; he 

 is sensible and kindly ; and friends of mine to whom 

 I gave a puppy, on its death refused to be consoled 

 by any other dog than one of the same variety. 



" It's a blooming lurcher," is the yokel's idea of a 

 deerhound, an opinion in which the cockney corner 

 man evidently coincides. Either will pass a rude 



