72 DOMESTICATED DOGS. 



aforethought. The bloodhound, as I have observed in treating 

 of his temper, is savage enough, but he has not this peculiarly 

 cruel tendency, which, no doubt, is developed from the selection 

 of those hounds who best and bravest tackle their hard-biting 

 quarry. 



As there are only these very trifling differences from the Welsh 

 harrier and Southern hound, I shall not repeat the points which I 

 have assigned to the former, the numerical value being the same, 

 while the shape of feet and texture of coat are the only external 

 differences, and these I have fully alluded to. 



VIII.— THE BOARHOUND OR GREAT DANE. 



In the present day there is so little use for this breed that it 

 is very seldom kept up in any degree' of purity. Nor is it clear 

 from examining the canvases of Teniers, who has painted him 

 in many of his pictures, what was the exact type of that dog, so 

 much do the several examples followed by him vary among them- 

 selves. Judging from experience, no reliance is to be placed 

 upon the imported specimens exhibited at recent shows, for not 

 only do they differ among themselves, even more than Teniers' 

 dogs, but they are also quite distinct from any of his types. The 

 finest specimen imported into England, within my knowledge, is 

 certainly Mr. Adcock's " Satan," a very grand upstanding dog, but 

 he shows much more of the mastiff than the hound, and is most 

 probably a cross between the two. An equally fine bitch was 

 shown last year by Mr. Lotz, who imported her from Germany, and 

 .1 was assured by that gentleman that her breed has long been kept 

 up in great purity for hunting the boar in the Black Forest. Both 

 of these examples agree in many points with the annexed engrav- 

 ing, which, except in size, describes the dog better than I can do. 



