Modern Dogs, 



dues to the sheriff or bailiffs appointed to collect the 

 same, the defaalters were to be put into gaol till 

 the amount was forthcoming. It would be quite 

 Interesting to note if such imprisonment was ever 

 enforced. Whether this was so or not, I have not 

 found any record to show, but it was said that the 

 hounds proved very useful for the purpose for which 

 they were provided. 



The utilisation of bloodhounds in the above 

 manner did not escape the notice of Sir Walter 

 Scott. A King of Scotland, Robert Bruce, threw 

 hounds off his track by wading down stream, and 

 thus without touching the river bank contriving 

 to ensconce himself, squirrel-like. In a tree. The 

 great Wallace, too, was so sorely pressed by sleuth 

 hounds that to save himself he slew a companion, 

 whom he suspected of treachery, In order that when 

 the creatures came up, they remained with the dead 

 man whilst the living one escaped. Later the Ill- 

 fated Duke of Monmouth, who sought concealment 

 In a ditch, after his defeat by the Royal troops at 

 Sedgemoor, was discovered In his Ignoble position 

 by bloodhounds. Happily this was the last battle 

 fought on English ground, and it seems strange that 

 its cause, ''King" Monmouth, should be so captured 

 by means of a British hound. In 1795, two hundred 

 bloodhounds were, under British auspices, landed In 



