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of a man who Is sent to run a few miles through the 

 woods ; and there is no difficulty whatever in so 

 training them. Indeed, the author tells us that he 

 has had hounds that were " natural man-hunters/' 

 and gives an instance where some puppies he was 

 rearing at the time a convict tried to escape were 

 put on his trail, and followed it until the man was 

 captured. Captain Powell corroborates what I have 

 already written, that it is a popular error to suppose 

 that hounds attack a prisoner when they, as it were, 

 run into him. When once the man is brought to bay, 

 hounds are a great deal too wary to venture close 

 enough to their chase to run the risk of a blow ; in 

 fact, they merely act as guides to the men who 

 follow closely on horseback. The convicts and 

 others have little or no fear of these hounds, and for 

 a few cents any stranger in the locality can obtain 

 one of the idle fellows, who are to be found every- 

 where, willing to be hunted by the pack. The 

 human quarry usually divests himself of a greater 

 part of his already ragged clothes, and, with a start 

 of a mile or so, makes his way over a rough and 

 wooded country until he finds a convenient place in 

 which he can keep the hounds at bay. 



At Warwick, in 1886, an attempt was made to 

 hold trials of bloodhounds in connection with the 

 dog show held there. These were, however, a 



