DOMESTICATED DOGS. 



II.— THE BLOODHOUND. 



Head of the Bloodhound (Youatt). 



This breed is so named because it is supposed to possess peculiar 

 powers of scenting the blood flowing from the wounds made in its . 

 quarry. Before the invention of the rifle, the arrow was used to 

 give the first wound, and this was sufficient to enable the forester 

 to make his pick from the herd, because though the arrow would 

 seldom cause immediate death, yet it would lead to a flow of blood 

 sufficient to induce the bloodhound to hunt that one deer in 

 preference to the rest of the herd. He was also employed to 

 track the sheep-stealer, in which occupation his tendency to follow 

 blood was developed in a similar manner. At present the deadly 



