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without even smelling any part of his person or 

 clothes until laid on the track of his footsteps. 



The second stake is of no account whatever, 

 being that already alluded to, where the men acting 

 as quarry had their shoe soles smeared with raw 

 horseflesh. It was, however, thought that three 

 competitors of the five entries would run well, so the 

 time was taken, and Koodoo, who did badly on the 

 '' clean boot," now ran a brilliant course at a good 

 pace, going the distance, including a check behind 

 the wood, in five minutes. Hebe III. and Hector 

 II. both began well, but, losing the line at about 

 three-fourths the distance, failed to regain it, and 

 were called up. They were awarded equal seconds, 

 Mr. Knowles's Koodoo taking premier honours. 



So much for the bloodhound trials ; and now, 

 when writing in 1897, they appear to have been 

 entirely discontinued, at any rate so far as public 

 exhibitions of them are concerned. 



With the introduction of dog shows the general 

 public were enabled to see how far the bloodhound 

 survived, and the early exhibitions held at Birmingham 

 always included two nicely filled classes of this dog, 

 which many persons believed to be almost extinct. 



'' Stonehenge," writing in 1869, says : 



Until within the last twenty-five years, or thereabouts, the blood- 

 hound has been almost entirely confined to the kennels of the 



