The Bloodhound. 41 



Sir E. Landseer, the animal painter, thoroughly 

 appreciated the bloodhound, its staid manner, its 

 majestic appearance. He, with Mr. Jacob Bell, kept 

 hounds of his own, and all know how he immortalised 

 them on canvas. His '' Sleeping Bloodhound," now 

 in the National Gallery, was a portrait of Mr. Bell's 

 favourite Countess, run over and killed in a stable 

 yard. It was after her death she was painted, 

 forming the subject, "A sleep that has no waking." 

 Grafton, in the popular picture, '' Dignity and 

 Impudence " was a bloodhound considered to be of 

 great merit in his day, now he would be regarded 

 as a very ordinary specimen. 



Mr. Brough, writing in the Cent wry Magazine^ 

 some few years since, goes at considerable length 

 into the training of bloodhounds, which is best done 

 by allowing the hound to hunt the '' clean boot," 

 rather than one smeared with blood or anything else. 

 He says : 



'' Hounds work better when entered to one 

 particular scent and kept to that only. Mr. Brough 

 never allows his hounds to hunt anything but the 

 clean boot, but begins to take his pups to exercise 

 on the roads when three or four months old, and a 

 very short time suffices to get them under good 

 command. You can beein scarcelv too earlv to 

 teach pups to hunt the clean boot. For the first 



