THE SENSE OF SMELL IN DOGS. 
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self. The bitch, who was now bowling to follow me, was led to 
the back door by another servant. Quickly finding the trail of 
the gamekeeper, she tracked it for a few yards ; but, finding that 
I had not been with him, she left his trail, and hunted about in 
all directions for mine, which, of course, was nowhere to be 
found. 
4. — I collected all the men about the place, and directed them 
to walk close behind one another in Indian file, each man taking 
care to place his feet in the footprints of his predecessor. 
In this procession, numbering twelve in all, I took the lead, 
while the gamekeeper brought up the rear. When we had walked 
two hundred yards, I turned to the right, followed by five of 
the men ; and at the point where I had turned to the right, the 
seventh man turned to the left, followed by all the remainder. 
The two parties thus formed, after having walked in opposite 
directions for a considerable distance, concealed themselves, and 
the bitch was put upon the common track of the whole party 
before the point of divergence. Poliowing this common track 
with rapidity, she at first overshot the point of divergence ; but, 
quickly recovering it, without any hesitation chose the track 
which turned to the right. Yet in this case my footprints in 
the common track were overlaid by eleven others, and in the 
track to the right by five others. Moreover, as it was the 
gamekeeper who brought up the rear, and as in the absence 
of my trail she would always follow his, the fact of his scent 
being, so to speak, uppermost in the series, was shown in no 
way to disconcert the animal when following another familiar 
scent lowermost in the series. 
5. — I requested the stranger before-mentioned to wear my 
shooting-boots, and in them to walk the park to leeward of the 
kennel. When the bitch was led to this trail she followed 
it with the eagerness wherewith she always followed mine. 
6. — I wore this stranger’s boots, and walked the park as he 
had done. On being taken to this trail, the bitch could not be 
induced to follow it. 
7. — The stranger walked the park in bare feet ; the bitch would 
not follow the trail. 
8. — I walked the park in bare feet : the bitch followed my 
trail ; but in quite a different manner from that which she 
displayed when following the trail of my shooting-boots. She 
was so much less eager, and therefore so much less rapid, that 
