The Bloodhound. 23 



allowed to depend upon his own exertions to recover 

 a lost trail. 



Mr. Brough's hounds included Barnaby (one of 

 the couple brought to London at the instance of the 

 late Commissioner of Police) and Beeswing, with 

 Belhus and Blueberry, their offspring. The two first 

 named are well-known hounds on the show bench. 

 Barnaby had run at the Warwick trials ; the younger 

 animals are fairly good looking, and their work was 

 quite satisfactory. Blueberry was afforded the next 

 trial, a stranger to her acting as the quarry, taking 

 his route down the hill over sundry fences, going a 

 semi-circular course of about a mile. After eight 

 minutes' law the hound was unleashed, and had no 

 difficulty in hitting the line, though snow was falling 

 heavily. She carried it along at a good pace, quite 

 mute, and, a little at a loss at one fence in the hollow, 

 cast well around, re-found the line, and, without more 

 ado, ran it out up to the man. 



At one portion of this trial a labourer crossed the 

 track, but the bitch stuck to her line, and was not 

 thrown out for a moment. Without resting, the two 

 couples of the Scarborough hounds had a quarry 

 provided in Dr. Philpot. For some distance he made 

 his way along the hillside, through scrub and stunted 

 bushes, down to a hedge at the foot of the vale. 

 Here there was a road, and, crossing this and a fence, 



