58 DOMESTICATED DOGS. 
hounds now in England, all have a tendency to dwell on the scent, 
and to cast backward rather than forward. Even the Gordon setter, 
which is supposed to be crossed with the bloodhound, exhibits this 
peculiarity in a marked degree, and in him it is often extremely 
difficult to get him away from the scent of birds gone away. On 
the other hand, in the pointer crossed with the foxhound there is 
none of this pottering, but so much forward dash as to lead to un- 
steadiness on the point. The advocates of the two styles of hunt- 
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“ Danuta,” * a pure Foxhound, used as Harrier. 
ing exhibited by the modern foxhound and by the remnants of the 
old Southern hound, whether harrier, otter-hound, or bloodhound, 
are of course loud in praise of their own protégés, and as much 
opposed to those of their rivals; but the fashion of the day being 
all in favour of progress, the foxhound “ has it” by a large majority. 
Nevertheless, my own experience leads me to put faith in the 
superior nose of the harrier or bloodhound; but then he wastes so 
* “Dahlia” is by the Duke of Rutland’s “Driver” out of the Bramhammoor 
“Dulcet.” She is 21 inches in height. 
