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is not necessary. Bloodhounds give tongue freely 

 when hunting any wild animal, but many hounds run 

 perfectly mute when hunting man. This is, however, 

 very much a matter of breeding. Some strains run 

 man without giving tongue at all ; others are very 

 musical." 



In America they have established a bloodhound 

 club adopting their standard from that which was 

 formulated and published in an earlier edition of this 

 volume. Strange as it may appear, after all the 

 bloodhound stories and the slaves, America had to 

 come to us for bloodhounds, and I believe the first 

 couple sent over were from the Scarborough kennels 

 in 1888. These were bred from by Mr. Winchell, 

 Mr. Brough, and others. More, however, were 

 imported, with the present result. Thus it is not 

 likely that club members or others have discovered 

 any pure bloodhounds in Virginia or in any other of 

 the Southern States. 



Not long ago some correspondence took place in 

 the Field with regard to what were called '' Bavarian 

 mountain bloodhounds." From a photograph of a 

 group forwarded to me, I had no difiRculty in coming 

 to the conclusion that these hounds were " blood- 

 hounds " but in name, being undersized and without 

 any of that dignity of expression and general 

 character which form such distinguishing features in 



