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place, and ultimately made its way to the cellar. 

 Here it marked under a coal heap, and, the coals 

 being removed, a flag was found, and buried two feet 

 below it was discovered the body of the child in 

 question. Other hounds had previously been tried, 

 but not one of them had shown such excellent 

 olfactory organs as the old bitch Dainty. It was 

 thought the body had been under the flag for eight 

 to ten days. Similar cases could be given, but 

 such discoveries might as easily be made by any 

 terrier or other variety of the dog with ordinary 

 scenting powers. 



The bloodhound stands alone amongst all the 

 canine race in his fondness for hunting the footsteps 

 of a stranger ; any dog will hunt those of his master 

 or of someone he knows, and of a stranger, probably, 

 whose shoes are soaked in some stinking preparation 

 to leave a scent behind. The bloodhound requires 

 nothing but the so-called ''clean shoe," and, once lay 

 him on the track, he hunts it as a foxhound would the 

 fox, or the harrier or beagle the hare. 



To proceed with the following description of man- 

 hunting with bloodhounds : 



The storm of Sunday had passed, and how deep 

 the snow lay in the streets and in the country places 

 on the Monday, are now a matter of history. The air 

 was keen and sharp, made so by a brisk north wind 



