34 Modern Dogs. 



Colonel Cowen, until his much lamented death in 

 1895, kept a hound or two at Blaydon, near New- 

 castle ; Mr. E. Brough, near Scarborough, is perhaps 

 our greatest breeder ; but good bloodhounds are also 

 to be found in the kennels of Mr. H. C. Hodson, 

 Lichfield ; of Dr. Sidney Turner, Sydenham ; of Mr. 

 R. Hood Wright, Frome ; of Miss F. E. Woodcock, 

 West Norwood ; of Mr. Walter Evans, Birchfield, 

 Birmingham ; of Mr. A. Bowker, Winchester ; of Mr. 

 A. O. Mudie, Herts ; of Mr. F. Gibson, Hull ; of Mr. 

 J. Kidd, Dundee ; of Mr. T. H. Mangin, Lymington ; 

 of Mr. F. de Paravicini, Oxford; and of Mr. M. H. 

 Hills, near Birmingham. 



Here mention must be made of the pack of 

 bloodhounds, kept over twenty years ago by the late 

 Lord Wolverton, who hunted the " carted " deer with 

 them in Dorsetshire, in the Blackmore \^ale country. 

 These hounds, or most of them, originally came 

 from Captain Roden, New Grove, co. Meath, who, 

 about 1864, obtained several hounds, a couple or so 

 coming from Hinks, of Birmingham, the well-known 

 dealer. They were sold by Lord Wolverton to Lord 

 Carrington, who had them but a single season, during 

 which he showed sport in Buckinghamshire. From 

 here they went into the kennels of Count Le Couteulx 

 de Canteleu, in France (author of that excellent 

 work, '' Manuel de Venerie Francaise," a portion of 



