38 Modern Dogs. 



1897, I'l^orG really good bloodhounds to be found in 

 this country than has ever been the case. Perhaps 

 Bono, Bardolph, Burgundy, Barbarossa, Brunhilda, 

 and Benedicta, from the Scarborough kennels, 

 generally have never been excelled ; and now, in 

 1897, th^ ^^^ latter, as Bono and Bardolph had done 

 earlier on, often win the special cup awarded to the 

 best dog in the show. Mr. H. C. Hodson's Rameses, 

 RolHck, Romeo, and Rubric are all hounds of high 

 class, and the names of several others equally good 

 could easily be mentioned, including Mrs. Heyden's 

 South Carolina, Mrs. C. Tinker's Dimple, and Mr. 

 Bowker's Berengaria. 



The pedigrees of our present bloodhounds have 

 been well kept during the past generation or so, and 

 their reliability in the Stud Book is undoubted. 



The late Mr. J. H. Walsh ('' Stonehenge") 

 appears to have had a prejudice against the tempera- 

 ment and character of the bloodhound, formed 

 evidently by a very savage and determined dog of 

 Grantley Berkeley's, called Druid. Whether modern 

 dog shows have been the means of improving this 

 hound's temper, and making him as amiable and 

 devoted a friend as any other dog, I cannot tell ; 

 but, that he is so, no one who has ever kept the 

 variety will doubt. Bring a bloodhound up in the 

 house or stable and use him as a companion, and he 



