226 Modern Dogs. 



He says : " I at one time had an English bulldog 

 who accompanied me constantly in deer stalking. 

 He learned to crouch and creep up to the deer with 

 me, never showing himself, and seemingly to under- 

 stand what I wished him to do. When necessary, 

 I could leave him for hours together alone on the 

 hill, when he would never stir until called by me. 

 If a deer was wounded, he would follow the track 

 with untiring perseverance, distinguishing the scent 

 of the wounded animal, and singling it out from the 

 rest, never making a mistake in this respect. He 

 would also follow the stag till he brought him to 

 bay, when, with great address in avoiding the horns, 

 he would rush in and seize him either by the throat 

 or the ear, holding on till I came up, or, as he once 

 did, slaughtering the animal, and then coming back 

 to show me where he had left it." 



This pleasant writer then describes how this bull- 

 dog hit the line of the wounded stag after other 

 dogs had failed to do so, how he ran the scent, and 

 ultimately returned bleeding to his owner, and with 

 an ugly gash in his side. Then he took the party 

 through thick woods, over rough ground, to where 

 the stag, with his throat torn open, lay dead at the 

 foot of a rock. Those of the party who had declared 

 the dog fit only to " kill a cat or pin a bull," were 

 now lavish in their praise of him, would have given 



