GENERAL REMARKS. 



bitch, to Chadbury, and in that of the dog to Mr. W. Long, of Amesbury, both 

 distinguished in the south as public coursers, and pitted against one another in 

 many a stake. 



I might point to the numerous descendants of Beacon and Scotland Yet, and 

 to Cerito and Master McG-rath, as having been more successful over the plains of 

 Altcar; but I believe that no strain of blood has done more over all sorts of 

 ground than the combination of Bedlamite and Blackfly in Riot, and that of Motley 

 and Wanton in David, and again in his son Patent. 



CHAPTER II. 

 MODERN HOUNDS HUNTING BY NOSE. 



GENERAL REMARKS THE BLOODHOUND THE FOXHOUND THE HARRIER THE 



BEAGLE THE OTTERHOUND. 



NDER this general heading are included by sportsmen those varieties of 

 the dog which pursue and kill their game by the nose only, and above 

 ground. As a consequence, greyhounds, deerhounds, pointers, setters, 

 /3 fiS- spaniels, and terriers are excluded from the list greyhounds, because 

 they do not ordinarily hunt by scent ; deerhounds, because they are 

 only used to retrieve their quarry when wounded by the rifle ; pointers, setters, and 

 spaniels, for the reason that though they find their game by the nose they leave the 

 gun to kill it; and terriers, because they work underground as well as above it. 

 From the latter half of the word greyhound and deerhound, it might naturally 

 be inferred that they could be considered hounds ; but in sportmen's language they 

 are not so, and if a man was heard to say that he saw a lot of hounds out on a 

 certain farm, when it turned out that they were greyhounds, he would at once 

 be set down as ignorant of sport and its belongings. The term is therefore 

 confined in the present day to the bloodhound, staghound, foxhound, harrier, 

 beagle, and otterhound. Except in Devonshire and Somerset, the staghound is not 

 allowed to kill his quarry, being whipped off as soon as the deer stands at bay; 

 and in all other packs either a pure foxhound of full size is used, as in Her 

 Majesty's, or a bloodhound, as in Mr. Nevill's and Lord Wolverton's, and hence 

 these last are included under the bloodhound or foxhound classes. The Devon, 

 and Somerset are, however, said to be of the pure old Southern hound strain 



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