imaginative picture conjured up by excessive devotion. That the 

 thing can be done has been demonstrated times without number, and 

 if there are failures, as failures there must be, we should not blame 

 the hound so much as those who have had his education in hand. 

 The instinct is present in practically all, although, naturally, it is 

 more fully developed in some than others. All that is needed is 

 for man to draw it out by his knowledge of hound work, aided by 

 patience. It would be just about as stupid to expect a beginner to 

 work a line eighteen hours cold as it would to chide a year-old 

 infant for tumbling in his earliest essays to stand alone. Line upon 

 line, precept upon precept. First a short distance, hot upon the 

 footsteps of the runner ; then further aheld and with a longer 

 interval elapsing, until you may despatch the quarry over night 

 and ask the hound in the morning to show you where he has been. 

 As a further refinement in the educative processes the line may be 

 crossed here and there by strangers, with the intent of teaching the 

 tracker to discriminate between the true and the false. If he is 

 worth his keep his sensitive olfactory nerves will have stored up 

 impressions of the original scent which never can be effaced by any 

 attempts to foil the track. 



One of the great advantages of keeping a bloodhound is that 

 the delicacies of hound work may be observed without the infliction 

 of cruelty upon another animal, and at a small expense. At the 

 same time one has the pleasure of feeling that in his possession is 



