130 Hounds 



the Scottish sleuthhoimd, though larger and as being 

 of more variable colours, hkewise different in their 

 music. It has been recorded that both Wallace and 

 Bruce were hunted through mountain and forest by 

 Bloodhounds. Turbervile, writing in 1575, refers 

 to the Bloodhound in the following terms: " These 

 are the hounds which the abbots of St Hubert have 

 always kept in honour and remembrance of the Saint 

 which was a hunter with St Eustace. Whereupon 

 we may conceive that by the grace of God all good 

 huntsmen shall follow them into Paradise." 



Gervase Markham, who wrote about the beginning 

 of the seventeenth century, speaks of these hounds 

 in the following terms: " The baie-coloured hounds 

 have the second place for goodnesse and are of great 

 courage, ventring far and of a quicke scent, finding 

 out very well the turnes and windings, almost of the 

 nature of the white ones save only that they do not 

 endure the heat so well, neither the treadings of the 

 horsemen, and yet, notwithstanding they be more 

 swift and hot, and fear neither cold nor water, they 

 runne surely, and with great boldnesses, commonly 

 loving the stagge more than any other beast; but 

 they make no account of hares. ... It is true that 

 they be more headstrong and harde to reclaime than 

 the white, and put men to more paine and travaill 

 about the same. The best of the fallow sort of 

 dogges are those which are of a brighter haire, 



