1 8 Modern Dogs. 



in such a case. Mr. Hood Wright offered the loan 

 of his hound Hector, but, owing to the fact that 

 he required some indemnity in case his dog was 

 killed or injured. Hector remained at home. 



Mr. E. Brough was then communicated with, and 

 he brought from Scarborough to London a couple 

 of his hounds. They had several '^ rehearsals " in 

 St. James's Park, where they acquitted themselves 

 to the satisfaction of the Chief Commissioner of 

 Police ; but it may be said that, though the line of 

 scent was repeatedly crossed by a strange foot, 

 without throwing off the hound, when the same was 

 done in the streets and on the pavement hounds 

 were quite at fault. Indeed, to be useful in tracking 

 criminals in a town very special training w^ould be 

 needed, and, personally, I believe that bloodhounds, 

 even with that training, would be useless in our 

 large centres for police purposes. 



Under fair conditions any bloodhound will, in a few 

 lessons, run the trail of a man a mile or two, or more, 

 whose start may vary from ten minutes or a quarter 

 of an hour, or longer. Some of the more practised 

 hounds can hunt the scent even though it be an hour 

 old, and we know that a couple of Mr. Brough's 

 bloodhounds, early one summer's morning, hunted 

 for a considerable distance the footsteps of a man 

 who had gone along the road thirteen hours before. 



