RACES OF LOGS. 



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Fig. 1402.— Poodle. 



about with their 

 hundreds of 

 tracks, take it up 

 where he leaves 

 them, and run 

 him down, 

 though he cross 

 the convict 

 gangs every mile 

 he runs. 



" This escap- 

 ing convict, clad 

 in . stripes cut 

 from the same 

 bolt with a hun- 

 dred others, may 

 run through the 

 woods, touching 

 weeds and bush- 

 es as he runs; Fifty convicts, clad as he was clad, may run through 

 the same woods in every direction. The dogs 'will hold his 

 scent running full tilt, breast high. If he makes a- curve of 45° the 

 dogs will not take the line, but will catch his scent thirty yards away 

 and cross the angle, though it were filled with the convicts who had 

 eaten and slept with the fugitive. Often a dog will carry a scent in 

 a gallop running parallel thirty yard's to the windward." > 



The Terrier. — No 

 breed of dogs has been 

 \ more improved by cross- 

 ing with the bull-dog 

 , than the Terrier family. 

 A modern blooded ter- 

 rier, such as the one 

 shown in Fig. 1398, may 

 be used alike for a sheep 

 dog or a retriever in 

 hunting ; and, in fact, it 

 may be said to be one 

 of the most thoroughly 

 useful animals of the en- 

 tire canine species. 

 Fia. 1408;— Maltese Dog. THE SETTER. — This 



