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fawn In colour, a huge specimen of his variety, 

 weighing over io61b., but unfortunately spoiled by 

 his execrable fore legs and feet. On the contrary, 

 Mrs. Humphries' Don, that once did a considerable 

 amount of winning, excelled In fore legs and feet, 

 but was weak and straight in his pasterns ; a very 

 plain-headed hound, always much over estimated. 

 Mr. E. Nichols had a dark-coloured hound, called 

 Triumph, that excelled In head and ears, and perhaps 

 there has been no better hound In this respect than 

 Cromwell, by Nestor — Daisy, and bred by Mr. W. 

 Nash In 1884. The head properties of this hound 

 were so fine that on his death, In 1892, a model was 

 taken of them by Sir Everett MlUals, who had Crom- 

 well In his kennels at the time. But here a list 

 cannot be given of all the excellent bloodhounds 

 that have made their appearance of late years, the 

 dog-show catalogues afford a better selection than I 

 could supply here, and the owners of the kennels 

 named on a preceding page are certainly to be com- 

 plimented on the progress they have made with the 

 bloodhound, notwithstanding the difficulty to be sur- 

 mounted In rearing the puppies. 



Mr. Edwin Brough, no doubt the most experienced 

 breeder of the present day, believes the modern 

 bloodhound to be much speedier on foot than in the 

 old days of the Mosstroopers, and there are now, in 



