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CHAPTER III. 



DOMESTICATED DOGS, HUNTING BY THE NOSE, AND BOTH FINDING 

 AND KILLING THEIR GAME, COMMONLY KNOWN EITHER AS 

 HOUNDS OE TERMERS. 



I. The Southern Hound — 2. The Bloodhound — 3. The Staghound — 4. 

 The Foxhound — 5. The Harrier — 6. The Beagle — 7. The Otter- 

 Hound — 8. The Boarhound or Great Dane — 9. The Dachshund — 

 10. The Fox -Terrier (Rough and Smooth) — 11. The English Terrier 

 (Manchester and White) — 12. The Scotch Terrier — 13. The Bull- 

 Terrier— 14. The Skye Terrier — 15. The Dandie Dinmont — 16. 

 The Bedlington — 17. The Yorkshire Terrier. 



I.— THE SOUTHERN HOUND. 



This hound is now extinct in its purity, all now existing being 

 more or less crossed with other breeds to increase the pace 

 required by modern fashion. Until fox-hunting began to be 

 regarded as a national sport, our hounds were divided into two 

 lands — the Southern hound and the Northern hound, of which the 

 latter was the faster of the two, but still not approaching our modern 

 foxhound in that respect. Hundreds of portraits exist of the 

 several old-fashioned hounds under the name of talbots, blood- 

 hounds, &c. ; but they differ so much among themselves as to be 

 clearly unreliable. It is currently believed that these hounds 

 were possessed of noses more tender than those of the foxhound, 

 and this opinion is supported by the accounts of chases lasting 

 for many hours, and as having been maintained on colder scents 



