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hound called a staghound or a buckhound when he 

 is entered to hunt the deer ? 



Mr. G. W. Hickman, of Birmingham, has written 

 most exhaustively and carefully on the subject on 

 one side; so have Mr. H. Richardson, Captain 

 Graham, Mr. R. D. O'Brien, Limerick, and others 

 on another side. I have to deal with " modern 

 dogs," and so the wolfhound, as he is now resus- 

 citated, must be described by me. There is no 

 doubt that by careful crossing between certain dogs 

 obtained from Ireland about 1841 with the deer- 

 hound and the Great Dane, an animal of a certain 

 distinctive type has been obtained, which, in its 

 turn, breeds perhaps quite as truly, up to a certain 

 standard, as most other canine varieties. Captain 

 Graham, who must be said to be the chief supporter of 

 the modern variety, says that his own strain u he can 

 trace back to those had by Richardson in 1841-42, 

 though not beyond 1862 from father to son. He 

 says the breed had been kept up by Mr. Baker, of 

 Badylohm Castle, and Sir John Power, of Kilfane, 

 from 1840 to 1865, or thereabouts. He further says 

 that on good grounds it was believed that " these dogs 

 were descended from Hamilton Rowan's, so called, 

 last of his race, Bran by name, a fine dark grey, rough 

 hound that was his constant companion." Captain 

 Graham had a grandson of Kilfane Oscar, a dog 



