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Blood-hound 
W HAT long ears!” you exclaim, 
when you look at this picture. Yet 
it is not so much his long ears 
that make this kind of dog of value, as 
his very keen sense of smell. For in hunting 
he uses that sense mainly. That is why, 
when a person wanders away and gets lost in 
the woods, a pack of blood-hounds are given 
his scent from some old shoe of his, and then 
they follow that scent, even though the trace of it may be days old, and at 
length find the person, going just where he went. These dogs are black and tan. 
The Sec-re-ta-ry Bird 
W HY should this tall, angry-looking bird 
be named a “sec-re-ta-ry” bird? In 
olden days, when sec-re-ta-ries did all 
their writing with quill pens instead of on a type¬ 
writer, they had a habit of laying their quill pen 
over their right ear, to have it handy. So this 
bird, with the queer quill-like feathers hanging 
down the back of his head, reminded people of a 
sec-re-ta-ry, and they called him that. He is large 
and long-legged, and is almost four feet tall. He 
is a pretty blue-gray in color, with some touches 
of black. His home is in South Africa. He lives 
on reptiles and birds. No wonder he looks hostile. 
The Re-triev-er 
H OW beautifully black and shaggy this large dog is! Sometimes a 
dog like this has close black curls all over him. Re-triev-er dogs 
are the most useful dogs in hunting that there are. They bring 
back to the huntsman the dead or wounded 
game that he has shot. That is where they 
get their name,—one who “retrieves,” or 
brings back. Their power to see is very 
great, as well as their sense of smell. Their 
eyes are dark and expressive, so that they 
almost look as if they were talking to you 
with their eyes. In that they are like the 
Newfoundland dog, who is a near relative. 
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