CASSELL'S POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY. 



v "'''' *''' (l "'"'"'- :t '"' '"' !"' I, *"<-1i mixtures were common in any great hunting expedition 



on the Continent, until the beginning of the la.st century. 



The breeds of England were only introduced into France after the Duke of Orleans had visited 

 this country. Reddish dogs were still generally used there to hunt the wolf till the year 1779, and 

 those of Prince Charles of Lorraine, kept at Laaken, were mostly of a rust colour, with black backs 

 but his ^taMishim-nt was on the ancient footing, consisting, in part, of matches or pairs of similarly 

 oloured dogs and breeds, but each pair differing somewhat in race : thus there were mastiffs, rough 

 greyhounds, matin-dogs, and large terriers ; several or all of these were taken out to hunt the sta<r, the 

 boar, and the wolf; and on some occasions it was as difficult as it was dangerous to keep them from 

 attacking one another. 



The Byzantine emperors, the Turkish sultans, and the German emperors, had all regularly- 

 orgamsjd bodies of the same kind. It is probable, however, that the Dukes of Burgundy, of the house 

 of Valois, exceeded, in these respects, the state maintained, not only by the kin-s of France but by 

 the sovereigns of England. 



Of the number of dogs they kept, we may judge by the officers in their household placed on the 

 stabhshmeut of the chase ; it consisted, in the time of Philip the Good, of one grand veneur, or great 

 huntsman, with twenty-four attendant huntsmen, a clerk, and twenty-four valets ; one hundred and 

 twenty hverymen, six pages of the hounds, six pages of the greyhounds, twelve under-pa-es of the 

 hounds, six superintendents of the servants of the kennels, six valets of limers, six of greyhounds, 

 twelve of running hounds, six of spaniels, six of small dogs, six of English dogs (mastiffs), six of Artois 



(matms), twelve bakers of dog's bread, a great wolf hunter, four wolf hunters, a grand falconer, 

 twenty-four falconers, and various other officers having business witli birds ; in all, 430 ! All these 

 pei-sons bore arms, and cried the ducal war-cry under his immediate banner. 



THE BLOODHOUND.* 



A STRIKING picture is called up before the mind, as the minstrel tells of the young heir of bold 

 Uuccleuch being lost in the wood 



J-ntil he heard the mountains round His wet cheek gW'd 'twixt fear and ire 



K.ng to the taking of a hound. He faced the bloodl , ound ,,, 



And hark ! and hark ! the deep-mouthed bark . And he ],| his little bat on hi-h ; 



Comes mgher .till, and nighcr: So nerce he struck the d *,,'.,,, 



Hursts on tbe path a dark bloodhound, 



His tawny muzzle track'd the ground, 



And his red eye shot fire. 



Soon as the 'wilder'd child saw he, 



He flew at him rif-ht furiouslie. 



I ween you would have seen with joy 



The bearing of the gallant boy ; 



Then, worthy of his noble sire, 



At cautious distance loudly bay'd, 



But still in act to spring ; 



When dashed an archer through the glade, 



And, when he saw the bound was stay'u, 



He drew his tough bow-string ; 



But a rough voice cried, ' Shoot not, hoy! 



Ho! shoot not Edward 'tis a bov!'" 



An old pamphlet, The Noble Art of Venerie, or Hunting," tells us in words that we models,, 



uberts hounds, so called, were commonly black, but that the race had become so mingled 



they were found of all colour. The abbot, of St. Hubert always kept some of their race iu 



remembrance of the samt, who was a hunter with St. Eustace. They were strong in body, but their 



be were ow and short ; they were not swift, but very good of scent, hunting chtces which were far 



straggled, foanng neither water nor cold, and preferring the chace of the fox, the boar, and such like, 



BCMM6, says the writer, " they find themselves neither of swiftness nor courage to hunt and kill the 



The blooiihoumis f 



I made BO great account to breed from then,, or to keep the kind, and yet I found 

 Whifih a hunter d,,l dedicate to a prince of Lorraine, who .seemed to love hunting much when* 

 W , bla,,n which the same hunter gave to his bloodhound, called Souyllard, which wls white :- 



1 My name came first from holy Hubert's race, 

 SouyllarJ, my b ire, a hound of singular grace.' " 



